TECH: PHR conference

Last week's PHR conference that I didn't go to (cos they held it in DC and I'm too cheap to fly there by myself) now has an available transcript. (All big PDFs--you have been warned).

The intro is long but good. It has a talk from Carolyn Clancy (AHRQ chief) then a quick 3 person panel on PHRs from CapMed, Brown and Toland (using Medem's iHealthrecord) and Cleveland Clinic (similar to the PAMF system Paul Tang spoke about). Finally it has a tour de force from Newt Gingrich, who explains exactly what we should have all have a personal health record and gives me no clue as to why we'll get there. But that doesn't stop companies giving him $200K a year to join his Center for Health Care Transformation--purely because they are interested in his words of wisdom; sure, yup that's all they're interested in!

I haven't got to this yet but here is the Intel lunch talk, and here's the last session with Esther Dyson et al