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Barbara L. Massoudi, M.P.H., Ph.D., BreathEasy Principal Investigator, RTI International We're excited to share a quick update now that we're just about at the halfway point in the intervention: We've recruited 30 patients who have been actively submitting data through...… Read More »

Deven McGraw, Proje­ct HealthDesign Regulatory and Assurance Advisory Group, Center for Democracy & Technology A new year has started — year two of the incentive program to encourage the meaningful use of certified electronic health record technology to improve individual...… Read More »

Patricia Flatley Brennan, Ph.D., R.N., Project HealthDesign National Program Director In June, as soon as Google mentioned its plan to discontinue the Google Health personal health record (PHR) platform, speculators began wondering whether Microsoft HealthVault would eventually follow suit. And...… Read More »

Anind Dey, Ph.D., dwellSense Principal Investigator, Carnegie Mellon University Throughout our project, we have had issues with recruiting subjects for our study. Our goal was to recruit 30 elders, along with their caregivers and doctors. However, we have struggled to...… Read More »

Libby Dowdall, Communications Coordinator, Project HealthDesign National Program Office Head over to InformationWeek today to read “Is 2012 the year of online patients?,” which features insights from Project HealthDesign Director Patricia Flatley Brennan, Ph.D., R.N. In the article, Marianne Kolbasuk...… Read More »

Libby Dowdall, Communications Coordinator, Project HealthDesign National Program Office In 2011, Project HealthDesign provided feedback on seven proposed policies. These ranged from applauding the HHS Proposed Rule on Patient Access to Lab Reports, which would allow patients to become more...… Read More »

Libby Dowdall, Communications Coordinator, Project HealthDesign National Program Office Visit KevinMD.com today to read “Using a mobile app to help chronic pain,” an op-ed by Roger Luckmann, M.D., M.P.H. Dr. Luckmann, who is a family physician, served as principal investigator...… Read More »

Libby Dowdall, Communications Coordinator, Project HealthDesign National Program Office Join us as we look back at our most-read posts from 2011. We’re grateful for your interest and the many conversations these posts have sparked throughout the past year. We look...… Read More »

Robert Belfort, Project HealthDesign Regulatory and Assurance Advisory Group, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP All of us working in health care are keenly aware of the importance of ensuring that health IT improves the quality of health care without creating...… Read More »

Karen Cheng, Ph.D., Estrellita Co-Principal Investigator, University of California, Irvine About two months ago, we did our first baseline interview. So far, four parents have started in the intervention group (and have received mobile devices with our app) and two...… Read More »

Katherine Kim, M.P.H., MBA, iN Touch Principal Investigator, San Francisco State University Dear Kathy, Three years from now you are going to be finishing the iN Touch project. You’ll have done some things well, made plenty of mistakes, and learned...… Read More »

Kathleen Morrison, M.P.H., Crohnology.MD Project Co-Director, Health Communities Foundation Medical sociologists and public health experts have recognized the important role that patient uncertainty plays in the lives of patients with chronic diseases for decades.¹ Fifty years ago, the standard paradigm...… Read More »

Murrey G. Olmsted, Ph.D., BreathEasy Senior Methodological Advisor, RTI International I recently heard a story on the news about the famed “Field of Dreams” farm in Dyersville, Iowa. This story reminded me of the approach taken with personal health records...… Read More »

Libby Dowdall, Communications Coordinator, Project HealthDesign National Program Office From new PHR platforms to creative mobile health applications, the opportunities for improving health and health care seem to multiply daily. We hope to see more developers and designers become passionate...… Read More »

Anind Dey, Ph.D., dwellSense Principal Investigator, Carnegie Mellon University During an earlier phase of our research, we identified the prospective information needs of our various stakeholders: elders, caregivers, occupational therapists and primary care physicians. In particular, our elders were quite...… Read More »