ng security and honoring individual control, business models for rolling out PHRs, societal issues in promoting the uptake of PHRs, use of PHR systems for the public good, legal challenges, and measurement of the value of the technology.

"Children's Hospital Boston, which pioneered development of personally controlled health record infrastructure, is co-sponsoring this conference to help realize the vision we have for our own patients, on a national and international scale," said Daniel Nigrin, MD, MS, Chief Information Officer at Children's.

New applications that can be built on top of a shared, public infrastructure, as well as public and private partnerships to create that infrastructure, will be addressed by John Halamka, MD, MS, keynote speaker on the second day of the conference. Dr. Halamka chairs the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Health Information Technology (IT) Standards Panel, and is Chief Information Officer of CareGroup Health System and of HMS.

New applications also will be discussed by PCHRI 2006 co-chairs Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH, and William C. Crawford.

Dr. Mandl is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Children's Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and a faculty member of the HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics. A pioneer in consumer-focused informatics, his open-source secure system for managing patient health records has been incorporated into one of the four National Health Information Network projects sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. Mr. Crawford is a staff member focused on Healthcare IT in the Office of Policy at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Washington, DC. He was previously Chief Technology Officer at Invantage, Inc., is author of several books on enterprise IT, and has held a variety of senior roles in the healthcare and pharmaceu
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