( The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Center...)Meeting To Discuss Issue Of Personal Health Records,Health

The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Center for Biomedical Informatics is hosting a meeting that is to discuss the privacy, business, societal, and technical issues surrounding personal health records. The first meeting on Personally Controlled Health Records Infrastructure (PCHRI 2006) will be held on October 10-11. //

"The work done at this meeting will further the development of the right kind of healthcare information infrastructure," said keynote speaker Mitch Kapor, widely known as the founder of Lotus Development Corporation. For the past 20 years, he has been in the forefront of information technology as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist, and philanthropist.

"With the nation on the verge of adopting personal health records (PHRs) to serve the needs of patient care, public health and research, we're at a critical juncture where the design and implementation of PHRs can be fully aligned with patients' needs for privacy and control, as well as prompt clinical service," added Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, co-director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and HMS Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston. "For this reason, the Center for Biomedical Informatics is convening the meeting."

"The PCHRI team has taken a boldly neutral, consumer-centric approach to facilitating industry consensus around this philosophy with an open-source technical model and an inclusive diffusion approach," said Keith Strier, Provider Innovation & Emerging Opportunities Lead for the Health Care & Life Science Practice at Deloitte Consulting LLP.

The two-day meeting - co-sponsored by Intel Corporation, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and Children's Hospital Boston - will provide a basis for ongoing collaboration on standards for patient-controlled interoperable electronic health records. Working groups at the invitation-only conference will focus on the technical challenge of exchanging patient records while maintaini
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