Healthcare Informatics Webinar: Google, Microsoft, & Dossia Create the Personal Health Information Network

• What are companies like Google, Microsoft, and Dossia (sponsored by Intel, Wal-Mart, AT&T and others) hoping to accomplish in health care?
• What is the emerging Personal Health Information Network (PHIN) and why should you care?
• What’s the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) Standard, and how is it destined to become an initial focal point of data exchange initiatives?
• Why is the PHIN potentially disruptive to many business models? What types of companies or organizations could be affected the most?
• What are opportunities and threats to major health care players — hospitals, physicians, health plans, enterprise HIT vendors, ambulatory HIT vendors, and others?
• What specific actions can you take to be a leader in advancing the PHIN and positioning your company for success?

In a recent blog posting, David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA and I wrote an overview of our vision for the PHIN. 

Now, for the first time, we look forward to discussing our vision for the PHIN. This Healthcare Informatics webinar will be held:

Thursday, April 17, 1 PM Eastern, 10 AM Pacific.

Click here for details….read “Event Info” to see a more specific description of the webinar.  Get a 15% discount by using Promo Code VK15.

Here’s a diagram of the PHIN as we see it today:

(click on the picture for a larger version)

The Speakers

Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA, is Principal and founder of Better Health Technologies, LLC (https://e-caremanagement.com/). BHT consults to companies in developing strategy, partnerships and business models for chronic disease management and eHealth applications delivered in homes, workplaces, and communities.

BHT’s clients are both established organizations and early-stage companies, including: Intel Digital Health Group, Philips Electronics, Joslin Diabetes Center, Samsung Electronics, Ascension Health System, Amedisys, Siemens Medical Solutions, Medtronic, Varian Medical Systems, Disease Management Association of America, and many others.

David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA is principal of The Kibbe Group and Senior Advisor at the Center for Health Information Technology, American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Kibbe is known as an innovator and independent mind in the field of health information technology in the United States. A respected technologist and co-developer of the ASTM Continuity of Care Record, CCR, standard that utilizes XML for interoperable health information exchange, he is also an experienced clinician who practiced medicine in private and academic settings for more than 15 years, while also teaching informatics at the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and founding two medical software companies. In 2005, he was voted one of the 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives in Healthcare by readers of the magazine Modern Physician. Dr. Kibbe is a frequently sought after as a speaker on topics that range from the economics of small practice use of EMRs, to privacy and security of health data exchange, to Web 2.0 applications applied to consumer health care delivery.

From 2002 until 2006, Dr. Kibbe was the founding Director of the Center for Health Information Technology for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the membership organization that represents over 95,000 U.S. family doctors. The Center is now the locus of the AAFP?s technical expertise, advocacy, research and member services associated with HIT, and a leading national resource on information and communications technology for physicians. During Dr. Kibbe?s tenure as Director of the Center for HIT, AAFP physician member adoption and use of EHRs more than tripled, from 12 per cent to over 40 per cent. He remains affiliated with the AAFP as a Senior Advisor to the Center.