BCIG BRAINSTORMING SESSION: "Personal Health Records for Patients”

Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

Topic: Tools like Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault make it much easier for hospitals to share data with their patients through personal health records websites. Do we want to develop something like this at the NIH? Do patients want us to? Should we be allowed to? Is it even a good thing to do? Mohammad Al-Ubaydli thinks the answer to all these questions is “Yes!” But working out the details is worthy of a BCIG Brainstorming Session.

NIH CONTACT: Jim DeLeo, 301-496-3848 jdeleo@nih.gov

BCIG WEB SITE: www.nih-bcig.org

NIH VISITOR INFORMATION: http://www.nih.gov/about/visitor/

3:00 pm to 4:30 pm June 12, 2008

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Who is Mo Al-Ubaydli?  Mo trained as an MD at the University of Cambridge and was a Staff Scientist at the NIH. For the last 18 months he has worked with hospital CIOs to help them share data with their patients. He is now starting an open source software project around personal health records. This includes a social network for anyone in the world who is interested in PHRs, open source or otherwise:  http://network.patientsknowbest.com

Who Should Attend? Anyone interested in any way about this subject is encouraged to attend!