I am experimenting with storyboarding using cartoons to help people visualize how to connect Californians to better management of a chronic condition. The goal is for potential partners and patients to see the value of a program like this, and add their input based on technical and clinical knowledge. Full storyline coming…working on getting patient involvement. On that note, is there anyone out there managing high blood pressure that would like to be a patient advisor?

Personal Health Record PHR Advisory Task Force - CCHIT Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology

Minutes from the first two meetings are also on this page. I believe the discussion regarding patient involvement happened after these meetings happened (at least, it is not in the minutes posted)

• Businessweek’s Cutting Edge of Health Care includes After Visit Summaries - Click on playbook to see it - after care and visit summaries are the cutting edge according to BusinessWeek. We've arrived.

• EPJ-Observatorium - From Denmark - the EHR Observatory - which follows dissemination of EHRs in that country. Why not a PHR Observatory in the United States?

• Hello Health-Concierge Care for All | Nexthealth - Hello Health is coming. This is a tweet by tweet review of Jay Parkinson, MD's demo.

• Health Management Rx: Good News/Bad News - CCHIT To Certify PHRs - Helpful guidance as PHRs enters the realm of CCHIT

• Some employees buy own laptops, phones for work - Yahoo! News - More on employees purchasing their own electronics for use in the workplace. I think this is an important trend to support if we want people in the workplace to innovate using the same Web2.0 tools they already use in their personal lives.

• Participatory Medicine - Nice summary by Gilles Frydman

• Coding & Documentation - January 2003 — Family Practice Management - ambulatory blood pressure monitoring - there is a cpt code and it is 93784

• Medicare Coverage of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring - CMS's coverage criteria for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. Could home blood pressure monitoring be covered similarly?