Business
More personal health records
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Aug. 14, 2006
WellPoint Inc., the country's largest private-pay insurer, has launched an initiative offering members access to services intended to help them stay healthy and better coordinate their care with physicians.
A key component of the 360 Health program, which is available in Georgia and New York and will be rolled out to all WellPoint's 34 million members during the next 16 months, is an online personal health record that members can print and share with their physicians.
Separately, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has issued a request for proposals to stimulate innovations in personal health information technology. The goal of the $3.5-million initiative, Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records, is to encourage technology pioneers to design PHR systems in ways that empower patients to better manage their health and health care. The foundation will issue up to 10 grant projects.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2006/08/14/bibf0814.htm.