Grant: Planning Grants - PA: Community-based Primary Healthcare

The event "The Patient Controlled Health Record: Transforming and impacting health and health care in Canada now" will take place in the fall of 2011 in Toronto, Ontario. The goal of this meeting is to generate ideas on reorganizing the health care system to a patient-led paradigm, and discuss ways to demonstrate the impacts and effectiveness of this approach through personal health records as the facilitator of this paradigm change. This meeting will bring together key researchers from many disciplines, technical specialists, patient representation and policy makers to network, generate research ideas, and begin consolidating a network of multidisciplinary research collaborators. The objectives of the proposed meeting are to: 1. discuss ideas on reorganizing the health care system to a patient-led paradigm 2. share information on the current state of personal health records 3. discuss ways to demonstrate the impacts and effectiveness of this approach through personal health records as the facilitator of this paradigm change. 4. engage researchers and developers of health information technologies to create and continue relationships that foster a program of research 5. obtain input from stakeholders on research directions and priorities for transforming the health care system to have a patient-directed focus using PHRs 6. garner support from stakeholders for obtaining funding and conducting research on PHRs 7.To use the emerging network to foster research capacity development in research on PHRs 8.To use the partnerships established to enable knowledge exchange and knowledge integration of innovations into policies and programs that affect the Canadian health care system One meeting over an evening and full day is planned which will include an internationally known keynote speaker in the area of PHRs, an expert panel, and small and large group activities to foster idea generation and planning.