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By: PHRs for the Disadvantaged « Chilmark Research | Ted Eytan, MD

PHRs for the Disadvantaged « Chilmark Research | Ted Eytan, MD — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:11:21 +0000

[...] PHRs for the Disadvantaged « Chilmark Research – Discussion of patient online access in the safety net is starting to go (more) mainstream. [...]

By: John

John — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:26:01 +0000

David,
I have just published a post that includes a link to th paper Cynthia mentions. Good paper that may help answer some of your questions, though probably not all. As I stated before, we are still pretty early into the roll-out of such health tools to this population and evidence of efficacy is still more circumstantial than absolute.

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Follow-up on PHRs for Disadvantaged « Chilmark Research — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:24:29 +0000

[...] 5, 2008 by John A recent post on the potential of PHRs to serve the disadvantaged has generated a few comments, including one [...]

By: Cynthia Solomon

Cynthia Solomon — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:02:09 +0000

Dave,
Nathan Botts and Tom Horan recently published a paper “Bridging Care Communication and Health Management within Diverse and Underserved Populations” (Botts and Horan, CGU, August 2008). This paper has a focus on the MiVIA PHR originally designed for migrant and seasonal workers and which now has expanded to serving other vulnerable groups including the homeless.

By: John

John — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:30:47 +0000

David,
Still a new technology with limited deployments. I will check with a couple of the PHR vendors and see if they can provide anything.

Also, I will be attending the AHRQ event next week in DC. A lot of research sponsored by AHRQ and this event presents early research results prior to publication. Will keep you posted via comments here or a follow-on post within the next couple of weeks.

By: david

david — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:43:28 +0000

Is there any published evidence yet about the use of PHR’s in underserved populations?

By: John

John — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:12:30 +0000

Thanks Ted for your comments and brining the CHCF event to my (and others readers of this blog) attention.

We are brothers in the same desire to promote PHRs to all citizens. Long road ahead for us, but a road worth taking.

By: Ted Eytan

Ted Eytan — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:17:55 +0000

John,

Glad that you are covering this area – the idea that PHRs are (and should be) for everyone have been a key component of work I’ve been doing with the California Healthcare Foundation.

You might be interested to know that CHCF convened some our nation’s leading innovators in providing PHR services to the safety net, along with key California safety-net providers, as a step in making this access a reality for all patients.

You can see images and presentations from this discussion here. The data shows that this population wants this access and many of them can benefit from it.

This will be a continued focus of my work, even as I promote PHRs in the commercially insured, because this is really about changing the profession and health system to become more patient-centered, regardless of the care environment.

Best,

Ted