Personal Health Records: Past and Future Directions, In Two Acts Clement J. McDonald, MD James J. Cimino, MD Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications National Library of Medicine
No Relevant Financial Relationships with Commercial Interests James J. Cimino, M.D.
Learning Objectives – Act I 1.An introduction to consumer access to health information, including their own personal health data 2.Familiarity with a sample of typical consumer-oriented health information sites 3.Demonstration of some of the early experiments with patient health records
Motivators Patient self-help/self-care Patient autonomy Coordination of care Health insurance - patient as case manager
What's New? Ability to interface with remote systems Common user environment Platform independence Internet culture Critical mass effect
What Do Consumers Want? Access to health information Help in finding a caregiver Purchasing power Community Access for providers Access to their own records –monitor –understand –contribute
Mayo Clinic:
Virtual Hospital:
HMO:
WebMD:
NLM Gateway: gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd
MedlinePlus:
Healthfinder:
CDC Preventive Guidelines:
Buy Cipro:
Issues Privacy and confidentiality Quality of health information (credentialing)
Zapper:
Health on the Net Code of Conduct (HONcode) Authority (authors) Complementarity (support, not replace) Privacy (respect personal data) Attribution (source of published information) Justifiability (back up claims) Transparency (of authorship) Financial disclosure (funding source) Advertising policy (distinguish ads from content)
Health on the Net:
Issues Understanding health information Privacy and confidentiality Quality of health information (credentialing)
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Issues Understanding their records Patient relations with care givers Have-nots Accuracy of data contributions Privacy and confidentiality Quality of health information (credentialing) Understanding health information
Issues Privacy and confidentiality Quality of health information (credentialing) Understanding health information Understanding their records Patient relations with care givers Have-nots Accuracy of data contributions
Some Examples of Past Systems Patient Centered Access to Secure to Secure Systems Online (PCASSO) Patient Clinical Information System (PatCIS)
Some Examples of Past Systems Patient Centered Access to Secure to Secure Systems Online (PCASSO) Patient Clinical Information System (PatCIS) MyHealthAtVanderbilt
MyHealthAtVanderbilt:
Some Examples of Past Systems Patient Centered Access to Secure to Secure Systems Online (PCASSO) Patient Clinical Information System (PatCIS) MyHealthAtVanderbilt
HealthVault:
Google Health:
Patient Portal Informatics Issues What are the patient information needs? How do patients understand? How do patients contribute? How do we evaluate the impact and value?