FARMINGTON, CT--(Marketwire - June 22, 2009) - A collaborative team with members from the
Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale-New Haven Children's
Hospital/Yale School of Medicine and Acsys Interactive
have responded to a national call for proposals from the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential
of Personal Health
Records, with the design of a trial involving a diverse pediatric
population with multiple chronic illnesses. We will be testing whether and
how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and
interpreted such that patients can take action to better manage their
health and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care
processes. It is envisioned that leading edge technology such as the Google
Health PHR platform along with Apple's iPhone or iTouch mobile devices will
be used to capture the ODLs. The proposed project team includes specialists
experienced in these approaches and ethnographic evaluation; in pediatric
disease management; in
patient-centered care involving patient-clinician-technology partnerships;
in bioethics; and in IT technical
development.
The team includes Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, of the Yale Center for Medical
Informatics and also President of Kaplan Associates, Alia Bazzy-Asaad, MD,
Chief, Pediatric Respiratory Medicine Section, Yale-New Haven Children's
Hospital/Yale School of Medicine along with Alan Mocksfield, VP Interactive
Technology, Acsys
Interactive.
Dr. Kaplan relates, "Our innovative combination of techniques provides the
kind of nuanced and broad view of patient-clinician-designer collaboration
that co-produces quality health care."
Announcement of successful proposals is expected to take place in late
fall.
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