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New Vision for Personal Health Records - Project HealthDesign E-Primer #1
5-22-07
Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records has funded nine teams of enterprising health and technology pioneers to design ways that personal health records (PHRs) can reflect and respond to what is happening in a user’s daily life, rather than be a static repository of their medical information. They hope to usher in widespread development of powerful PHR systems that link personal medical data with smart, practical tools that help patients manage their health and enhance their care. “A New Vision for Personal Health Records” explains how Project HealthDesign’s vision of next-generation PHRs can empower patients to improve their health.
This is the first in a series of e-primers focusing on topics relevant to national discussions about the design and implementation of patient-centered PHR systems. Funded by the Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with additional support from the California HealthCare Foundation, Project HealthDesign is administered by a national program office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Participants are designing and testing a suite of PHR tools and applications that work together to help people achieve their specific health goals in an integrated fashion.
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