Looking at how young people use the Web for virtually everything from commerce to social networking, it’s not hard to imagine an increasingly virtual future health care world. If Don Berwick is right that at least half of current in-person clinical encounters don’t require a visit, this generation likely will change the character of US health [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Who Will Be the Next Generation of PHR Users?
March 19, 2007Ix is in the House: Congressman Kennedy Re-Introduces PHR Legislation
March 1, 2007Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) re-introduced the “Personalized Health Information Act” at a Capitol Hill briefing today to incentivize adoption of personal health records (for details of the precursor PHR legislation from the last Congress, see my January 3 post: Patient-Centered Health Information Technology in the New Congress). Some of the observations about the issues that most struck [...]
