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Consumer Empowerment Workgroup - Archive

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As each workgroup meeting is completed, all of the relevant materials will be archived here, including agendas, any presentation materials, the program archive, the transcript, etc.

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2008 Meetings: 06/17/0805/15/0804/15/08 | 03/18/08 | 02/13/08 | 1/29/08

2007 Meetings:  12/05/07 | 10/16/07 | 09/12/07 | 07/11/07 | 06/13/07 | 05/02/07 | 03/16/07 | 02/16/07 | 01/10/07

2006 Meetings:  11/28/06 | 11/06/06 | 10/12/06 | 09/18/06 | 09/07/06 | 07/27/06 | 06/19/06 | 05/01/06 | 04/25/06 | 03/20/06 | 02/21/06 | 01/30/06

Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 1:00 p.m., E.T.

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• Agenda
Update on Education and Outreach Plans for Minorities - Garth Graham
• Health Information Exchange and PHRs - Chris Muir (ONC)
• Analysis and Trends of Internet Based PHRs - John Moore (Chilmark Research)
• Microsoft and Google PHRs - Wes Rishel (Gartner)
• CE Workgroup Consolidated Meeting Summary

• Meeting Transcript

• Summary coming soon.

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Thursday, May 15, 2008, 1:00 p.m., E.T.

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Womack - Ad Hoc Clinical Decision Support Update
Horan - Disability Recommendations Update
Bell - Racial and Ethnic Communities/Underserved Recommendations
Nall - Consumer Empowerment Workgroup Recommendations for Social Media
Wattenberg - Consumer Consent Recommendation Discussion
Ennis and Roberts - Gaps in Current Work
CE-Recommendations Jan 2006-May 2008

• Meeting Transcript

Meeting Summary

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 1:00 p.m., E.T.

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Seidman - Strategies for Shared Decision Support through the Integration of HIT and Patient-Centered Care
Sepucha - Tools to Support Knowledge-Based and Patient-Centered Medical Decisions
Nall - Social Media – Follow up
Nall - Recommendations/Discussion
Heywood - PatientsLikeMe
Brennan - PHRs – Engaging Patients and Clinicians in Healthy Choices

• Meeting Transcript

Meeting Summary

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 1:00 p.m., E.T.

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Horan - Disability Subgroup Proposed Recommendations
Bernhardt - What is Social Media?
Johnmar - Trends in Social Media: Who is using it? What are they using?
Nall - Examples of Health Applications in Social Media
Ahern - Evidence Base for Social Media Use in Health
Wedner - Perspectives from a Social Network

• Meeting Transcript

• Meeting Summary

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 1 p.m., E.T.

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Graham - Proposed Recommendations for HIT for Racial and Ethnic Communities
Bell - Ad HOC Clinical Decision Support Recommendations
Winkenwerder - HIT and Consumer Attitudes
Clinical Decision Support Background Letter
Bell - PHR Paradigm slides

• Meeting Transcript

• Meeting Summary

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 1 p.m., E.T.

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Gibbons - Technologies and Disparities
Palacios - Use of Electronics Medical Records
Ficco - Using Technology to Improve Migrant Health Care Delivery
Weinberg - Now, Not Later
Horan - CE Disabilities Subgroup Status Update
Bell - Diagrams of the PHR Paradigm
Graham - Proposed Recommendations

• Meeting Transcript

• Meeting Summary


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Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 1 p.m., E.T.

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Garth Graham - HIT and Reducing Health Disparities
Teresa Zayas Cabán - Working to Reduce Disparities Through HIT
Ruth Perot - HIT and Racial Ethic Minority Health
Lorraine Doo - Interim Update of the PHR Pilot Study
Use Case Discussion
John Loonsk - AHIC Priorities and Use Cases

• Meeting Transcript

• Meeting Summary


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Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 1 p.m., E.T.

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• Karen Bell – Bridges to Health
• Fred Cowell – Personal Health Records (PHRs) for People with Disabilities
• David Stapleton – The Role of Personal Health Records in the Disability Policy Transition
Ron Manderscheid – Empowering Disabled Consumers Through Personal Health Records
Thomas Horan – Disability Systems as a Key Component of Personal Health Record Success
Kim Nazi - My HealtheVet PHR Part II : Q&A
• Karen Bell – Use Case Prioritization

• Meeting Transcript

• Meeting Summary

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 1:00 p.m., ET

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• Simon Cohn - Secondary Uses of Health Data
• Elaine Blechman - Personal Electronic Health Records: Types, Capabilities, Consumer Needs, & Value Propositions
• Paul Tang - Facilitating Online Care: A Proposed Reimbursement Model
• Kim Nazi - My HealtheVet PHR
• Consumer Empowerment Recommendations

• Meeting Transcript

• Meeting Summary

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 1:00 p.m., ET

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• Agenda
• Adobe Acrobat PDF Secondary Use of Health Data White Paper (available in PDF only, 109 kb)
Secondary Uses of Data Testimony:
• Dr. Charles Safran, Harvard Medical School - Toward a National Framework for the Secondary Use of Health Data: An American Medical Informatics Association White Paper Presentation
• Jonathan White, AHRQ - Secondary Uses of Data as it relates to quality reporting
• Jason Bonander, CDC - Secondary Uses of Data as it relates to Public Health Services

• Meeting Transcript

• Meeting Summary

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 1:00 p.m., ET

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• Essential Vendor Privacy Policy Components
• Suggested Framework Options
• Loonsk - Nationwide Health Information Network: "Consumer Services" in the 2007 Trial Implementations

• Meeting Transcript

• Meeting Summary

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Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 1:00 p.m., ET

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• Cronin - Overview of Health Information Exchanges
• Parente - Towards Consumer Empowerment: What Can Medical Banking Do?
• Casillas Script - Medical Banking Project
• Casillas Presentation - Medical Banking Project
• Chin Report - Review of the PHR Service Provider Market: Interoperability and Data Mobility
• Chin Presentation - Review of the PHR Service Provider Market: Interoperability and Data Mobility
• Mandl and Crawford - Personally Controlled Health Records in a National Health Information Network
• Lansky - The Role of Data Intermediary Services in Connecting Consumers to the NHIN
• Downs - PHRs: The Roles of Data, Applications, and Intermediaries
• Adobe Acrobat PDF Ball and Gold - Banking on Health: Personal Records and Information Exchange (available in PDF only, 366 kb)
• Adobe Acrobat PDF Connecting for Health - A Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information (available in PDF only, 1.64 mb)

• Meeting Transcript

• Meeting Summary

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Friday, March 16, 2007, 1:00 p.m., ET

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Chin - Altarum Institute Presentation on Privacy Policies
PDF Updated Altarum Institute PHR Privacy Policy Report (PDF only, 238 KB)
List of PHR Vendors Reviewed in Altarum Institute PHR Privacy Policy Report
Crosswalk of Privacy Policy Components and Proposed Privacy Principles
PDF NCVHS PHR Recommendations Report (PDF only, 365 KB)
(See recommendations 3-7 on pages 20-22.)
Proposed principles for CE PHR Breakthrough Project

• Meeting Transcript

• Meeting Summary

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Friday, February 16, 2007, 1:00 p.m., ET

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Description of Consensus Process
CCHIT Presentation on PHR Standards & Certification
CCHIT Testimony on Standards & Certifications
List of Benefits and Concerns about Certification
PDF HITSP Summary of Consumer Empowerment Standards (PDF only, 196KB)
Tabled Recommendations
Draft AHIC Recommendations Letter
Final AHIC Recommendations Letter from January 23, 2007
VA MyHealtheVet Update

• Meeting Transcript

• Meeting Summary

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 1:00 p.m., ET

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AHIC Recommendations Letter
Stanley Chin – PHR Privacy and Security Policy Review
PDF PHR Privacy and Security Policy Review (.PDF only, 163KB)

• Meeting Transcript

• Meeting Summary

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 11:00 a.m., EDT

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Rankings:
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Meeting Summary
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Monday, November 6, 2006, 1:00 p.m., ET

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MS Word Agenda (Word only)
MS Word Draft Recommendation to the AHIC (Word only)
MS PowerPoint Stanley Chin Presentation (.PPT only)
PDF Stanley Chin Paper: Altarum - Environmental Scan of the PHR Market (.PDF only)
MS PowerPoint William Crawford & Kenneth Mandl Presentation (.PPT only)
PDF Crawford & Mandl Paper: "How to keep electronic medical records accessible but private." (.PDF only)
PDF Crawford & Mandl Paper: Health Information Altruists (.PDF only)
MS PowerPoint Stephanie Fenton Presentation (.PPT only)

Meeting Transcript
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Meeting Summary
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Thursday, October 12, 2006, 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., EDT

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Meeting Agenda:
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Sept. 18th Consumer Empowerment Meeting Summary
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Draft Visioning Matrix:
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Definition of Functional Categories:
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Markle Foundation July 2004 - PHR Final Report:
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Prioritization Ranking Tool Summary:
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Meeting Transcript
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Monday, September 18, 2006, 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., EDT

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Meeting Agenda:
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PHRs: Critical Success Factors:
PDF Paul Tang (.PDF only)

Draft Visioning Matrix:
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Prioritization Ranking Tool Summary
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Panel 1 - PHR Consumer Engagement and Literacy:
PDF Marc Boutin (.PDF format)
MS Word Marc Boutin (Word format)
PPT Cynthia Baur (.PPT only)
MS Word Michael Leu (Word only)
PPT William Smith Academy (.PPT only)

Panel 2 - PHR Incentive Policy Levers:
MS Word William Crawford (Word only)
PDF Mary Ellen Zipper (.PDF only)

Public Testimonies:
MS Word Richard Dick - Healthcare Informatics (Word only)
MS Word Linda Mills - Florida Governor'sWorking Group on the A.D.A. (Word only)
MS Word Don Mon - AHIMA (Word only)
MS Word 2006 eRisk Guidelines (Word only)
MS Word PeopleChart - Standardized Fees on Medical Record Copies (Word only)
MS Word PeopleChart - Equal Opportunity in Interoperability (Word only)

Meeting Transcript
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Meeting Summary
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Thursday, September 7, 2006, 9:00 a.m. EDT

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Summary of Testimony from July 27 Hearing:
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Consumer Empowerment workplan:
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Prioritization Tool:
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Meeting Transcript
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Thursday, July 27, 2006, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. EDT

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Meeting Agenda:
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Federal Register Notice:
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JAMIA PHR Article:
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HIMSS PHR Survey:
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"Discussion About Definition of Personal Health Records (PHR)," Daniel Sands:
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"Banking on Health." Ball and Gold. JHIM, Spring 2006:
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eRisk for Providers, Medem, March 2001:
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Agarwal PHR Report AMIS Chapter:
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Agarwal PHR Article, May 2006:
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Panel 1 - PHR Clinical, Patient, and Consumer Perspectives - written testimony:
PDF University of Maryland - Agarwal
MS Word Whatcom Region-St Joseph Hospital - Marc Pierson
MS Word SharedHealth - Jana Skewes

Panel 2 - Payers and Purchasers - written testimony:
PDF IBM - Jane Barlow
MS Word PepsiCo - Greg Heaslip
MS Word Greater Omaha Packing - Kathleen Krantz
MS Word Dell - Kathleen Angel
PDF Carmella Bocchino

Panel 3 - Standards Development - written testimony:
MS Word HITSP - Elaine Blechman
PPT Donald Mon HL7 PHR

Panel 4 - PHR Companies - written testimony:
MS Word FollowMe - Cynthia Solomon
MS Word WebMD - Philip Marshall
MS Word Medem - Edward Fotschs
MS Word SimplyWell - James Canedy

Public Testimonies:
MS Word AAP - Alan Zukerman
PDF Amanda Atkins
PDF Cerner
MS Word Dale Ann Micalizzi
MS Word Deborah Beranek Lafky
PDF ICW Mark Wallin
MS Word Lynne Brengman
MS Word Matt Schmidt
PDF MedCommons - Adrian Gropper
MS Word National Consumer League
MS Word SHIRE - Russell Davis

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Meeting Summary
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Monday, June 19, 2006, 1:00 p.m. EDT

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Workgroup Roadmap:
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NCVHS PHR Report:
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Monday, May 01, 2006, 1:00 p.m. EST

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 1:00 p.m. EST

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Draft Recommendation Letter:
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Appendix A - Background for Recommendation 1.0:
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Appendix B - Background and Rationale for Recommendations 2.0 and 2.1:
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Monday, March 20, 2006, 1:00 p.m. EST

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Consumer Matrix Regional Data:
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HIT - Research Criteria:
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HIT - Work Plan:
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 1:00 p.m. EST

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Proposed Principles for Consumer Empowerment Breakthrough:
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Options Paper--Data Elements and Data Sources:
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Options Paper--Breakthrough Models:
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Options Paper--Population:
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Matching Patients and their Data-Background Paper:
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Policy Issues and Barriers:
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Appendix to the Data Elements and Sources Paper:
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Monday, January 30, 2006, 1:00 p.m. EST

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Briefing Document:
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Breakthrough Workgroup Activities & Community Milestones:
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