Attitudes of Americans Regarding Personal Health Records and Nationwide Electronic Health Information Exchange

More than 7 out of 10 Americans support the creation of a nationwide health information exchange or network for doctors and patients. They ...

Americans Want Benefits of Personal Health Records

Over 70 percent of those surveyed believe PHRs would improve the quality of health care. Over two-thirds would use PHR features that are or may ...

Engaging Americans in their Health and their Health Care through Health IT

Chairman Davis and distinguished members of the Committee on Government Reform, thank you for inviting me to meet with you today. Attention ...

Connecting Americans to their Health Care: Involving Diverse Populations

Steve Downs, from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Francesca Gany, from New York University Medical Center; M. Chris Gibbons, from Johns Hopkins ...

Connecting Americans to their Health Care: Improving Access and Protecting Privacy

Janlori Goldman, from Health Privacy Project; Alan Westin, from Columbia University; Harriet Pearson, from IBM; and Jodi Daniel, from the Office ...

Connecting Americans to their Health Care: Future of PHRs

Josh Lemieux, from Markle Foundation; Philip Marshall, from WebMD; Peter Reuschel, from InterComponentWare; Anna Slomovic, from Revolution ...

Connecting Americans to their Health Care: Consumer Input

Susan Christensen, from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Vicki Estrin, from Tennessee Volunteer eHealth Initiative; Lisa ...

Connecting Americans to their Health Care: Consumer Empowerment

David Lansky, from Markle Foundation; Kelly Cronin, from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; Kathleen ...

Connecting Americans to their Health Care: Networked PHRs

In this presentation, James Ralston from Group Health Cooperative; Paul Shiels from eHealth, Aetna, Inc.; and Omid Moghadam from Intel ...

Doctors and Patients Perceive Potential Value of Electronic PHRs

The Markle Foundation and the American Medical Association (AMA) joined together to present coordinated surveys that examine physician and patient views of electronic personal health records (PHRs) at the 2010 HIMSS Conference in Atlanta.