191397 Electronic Personal Health Record – Healthcare Implications in Addressing Health Disparity for the Nation's Vulnerable Populations

Saturday, October 25, 2008: 2:30 PM

Eileen Elias, MEd , Senior Policy Advisor for Disability and Mental Health, JBS International, Inc., North Bethesda, MD
Addressing health disparity for vulnerable populations – including racial and ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, and the underserved – is an integral component of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Consumer Empowerment Workgroup's input to the American Health Information Community (AHIC) to ensure widespread adoption of person health records (PHRs) overtime. The APHA HIIT has an important role to ensure that the racial and ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, and the underserved PHR recommendations recently presented by AHIC to the HHS Secretary are addressed. This presentation will identify these seven recommendations and facilitate a discussion on each of their importance to the HIIT SPIG in its current work and to support its planning for the 2009 APHA Conference priorities.

Learning Objectives:
Attain a comprehensive understanding on how the HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) defines vulnerable populations. Attain a comprehensive understanding the roles of the AHIC and the supporting Consumer Empowerment Workgroup in addressing health disparity for vulnerable populations. Attain an understanding of the recommendations brought to the HHS Secretary by the AHIC regarding vulnerable populations in the PHR development. Identify HIIT’s role and actions steps in ensuring that the vulnerable persons’ PHR recommendations are monitored by HHS within FY 2009.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: tba
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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