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InfoFair 2010 – The Personal Health Record: Possible, Portable, Private?

Info Fair logoDate: Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Time: 8:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: George and Dolores Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium, and the Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Health Sciences Education Building Atrium (2nd floor); University of Utah Health Sciences Center (link to map)
Who: Kenneth D. Mandl, M.D. and others
Hosted by: Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library

InfoFair 2010 focuses on the personal health record. Kenneth D. Mandl, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, presents the Clifford C. Snyder, M.D. and Mary Snyder Lecture Patients at the Center of an Innovation Platform: Personally Controlled Health Records and the App Store for Health.

From 10:15-11:45 the Meet the Experts panel responds to Dr. Mandl’s remarks. Jean P. Shipman moderates panelists Amy Rees Anderson, Kirk L. Davis, Leslie Lenert, Curtis Newman and Nancy T. Lombardo. Panelists represent private, government, academic, hospital and patient interests.

At 11:45-12:15 Sarena Burgess from the National Library of Medicine will join us virtually to provide an overview of MedlinePlus Connect, a tool to link quality information to a patient record.

Exhibits with lunch take place from 12:00 p.m. -1:30 p.m. in the Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Health Sciences Education Building Atrium. Exhibits highlight various online personal health tools including MyChart, My Health, My HealtheVet, myMediConnect and My WebMD.

For details about InfoFair 2010 please visit the website. There are links to the schedule, presenters, and exhibits.

Contact Jeanne Le Ber if you have questions. 801-585-6744.