Designing PHRs for Living Project Challenges Experts to Create Personal Health Record Technologies That People Want and Need in Their Daily Lives

Publication Date: September 2007

Publisher: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Author(s): Project HealthDesign

Research Area: Health

Type: Report

Abstract:

Project HealthDesign is helping to create the next generation of personal health records (PHRs) and PHR systems. The project, a national program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the California HealthCare Foundation, supports nine cross-cutting teams in developing new approaches to PHRs that will help patients take charge of their health and better manage their care.

Designing PHRs for Living documents how the project has evolved, reports early findings on what patients want from their PHRs to support specific health goals, and provides updates from six grantee teams from across the United States. Each team relied on extensive feedback from patient groups and faced numerous project revisions along the way. The report also provides commentary from Patricia Flatley Brennan, R.N., Ph.D., national program director for Project HealthDesign and Stephen Downs, S.M., senior program officer and deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Group.