Forge New PHR Frontiers with Project HealthDesign at 9/17 Forum

We hope you can join us September 17th in Washington, DC for "New Frontiers in Personal Health Records: A Report-Out from Project HealthDesign and Forum on Next-Generation PHRs."  Project HealthDesign and its grantees have been pushing the potential for personal health records (PHRs) and related technologies to help consumers take charge of their health like never before.  This free, one-day event will feature the grantee design teams, who will showcase the prototype PHR applications they have been developing over the past 18 months, along with experts discussing key issues in this space, including:

• ways that new PHR designs can enhance how people manage their health and coordinate their care in the course of their everyday lives;
• the most important policy questions that will shape this dynamic field;
• where health system and tech industry leaders see this field heading, and its potential for empowering consumers;
• the innovative possibilities that emerge when you involve end users in the design and development process from the start;
• functional requirements and common platform components developed by Project HealthDesign, and how they could have broad application across the PHR field;
• ethical, legal and social implications presented by next-generation PHRs, and more.

Speakers confirmed thus far in the lineup include:

• Colin Evans, President and CEO, Dossia
• Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Keith Toussaint, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft HealthVault
• Amy Tenderich, DiabetesMine blogger
• Carol Diamond, Managing Director of the Health Program, Markle Foundation
• Karen Bell, National Health Information Technology Coordinator, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

The event is being held at the Westin Washington, D.C. City Center -- please e-mail Erica Garland or call 202-745-5119 to register.  We hope to see you there for what looks to be a day of fascinating discussion and exploration.