- Ning – Create your own Social Networks! – As it says, a way to create a social network. What if a physician created one for her patients (who opted in)?
- The Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT) – ALLHAT treatment information
- Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible – Information from the NHLBI about hypertension control – unfortunately, it looks like the site has been abandoned. Another argument for a Web 2.0, more interactive approach.
- Sixty minutes of health reform education: Frontline is required watching – Overview of international health systems – incentives seem more aligned, and of interest, when reforms are society/community focused, the professions understand their utility.
- NEJM — Characteristics of Patients with Uncontrolled Hypertension in the United States – "Undiagnosed hypertension and treated but uncontrolled hypertension occur largely under the watchful eye of the health care system;"
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Groundbreaking reimbursement agreement? ; Some patients don’t want PHRs; Role of the Federal Government in PHR Design
February 4th, 2008 | Popularity: 19% 0 comments | Leave a replyPCHIT links for January 30th through January 31st:
- Group Offers Doctors Bonuses for Better Care – WSJ.com – “Far Reaching” seems an accurate description. This could really drive PHR adoption.
- Personal Health Records Online? Just Say No! – Commentary from the Patient Empowerment Blog at About.com. I’ve added my own comment at the bottom.
- Project Health Design Blog: Minimal federal government impact on PHRs in 2008? – Discussion of the federal role in PHR development from the excellent HealthDesign blog. If not useful in designing PHRs, what about in incentivizing them, such as part of current HRSA grant programs?
