NEW REPORTS:

• Americans See Access To Their Medical Information as a Way to Improve Quality, Reduce Health Care Costs
  

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• Survey Finds Americans Want Electronic Personal Health Information to Improve Own Health Care
  

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• Expert Teams to Design New Solutions for Personal Health Records to Help Consumers Manage Their Health
  

  Download Robert Wood Johnson Foundation news release (79 KB)

CONNECTING FOR HEALTH RELEASES NEW COMMON FRAMEWORK DOCUMENT ON PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS (PHRs):

December 4, 2006
Connecting Americans to Their Health Care: A Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information: A white paper that describes a networked environment in which consumers could establish secure electronic connections with multiple entities that hold personal health information about them. The paper discusses how consumer participation in networked environments has transformed other sectors, such as travel and finance, and concludes that the health care sector would benefit greatly from a properly designed secure network that enables greater consumer engagement.

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