John Sharp is an IT Manager for a major medical center in Northeast Ohio. Areas of expertise include: ehealth, personal health records, Web 2.0 technologies, social media and project management. He is active in the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society and the American Medical Informatics Association. The opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author.
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Archive for December 8th, 2006
Health e-Technologies Initiative Announces Articles on eHealth Research
December 8, 2006
Published in Evaluation and Programming Planning, these articles from grantees of Health e-Technologies Initiative, are important contributions to ehealth research. Topics include,
- An introduction to methodological challenges in the evaluation of eHealth research: Perspectives from the Health e-Technologies Initiative
- A framework for evaluating eHealth research
- Multidisciplinary eHealth survey evaluation methods
You can view them on the journal’s website.
Project Health Design Grants Announced
December 8, 2006
Project HealthDesign of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has announces its grants related to innovation in personal health records. The grantees are:
- University of Rochester, Personal Health Management Assistant
- Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc, Personal Health Application for Diabetes Self-Management
- University of Washington, Chronic Disease Medication Management Between Office Visits
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, My-Medi-Health: A Vision for a Child-focused Personal Medication Management System
- University of Massachusetts Medical School, Supporting Patient and Provider Management of Chronic Pain with PDA Applications Linked to Personal Health Records
- Research Triangle Institute, ActivHealth: A PHR System for At-Risk Sedentary Adults
- Art Center College of Design, Living Profiles: Transmedia Personal Health Record Systems for Young Adults
- University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Assisting Older Adults with Transitions of Care
All sound interesting and great contributions to the relatively new and growing PHR field. I look forward to the results of these efforts.
