Personal Health Records are a large emerging market, and this is an important initiative to ensure that the suite of HL7 standards can be used to underpin interoperability between all health records wherever they are held. HL7 UK Members are encouraged to complete the survey if it is an area of interest to them.

The ISO-HL7 PHR International Survey team would like to invite you to participate in a survey of the international uses of Personal Health Records and Personal Health Informatics.

The goal of this survey is to inform and update the standards-development community of the current needs, desires, and trends surrounding the electronic Personal Health Record (PHR) and its superset, Personal Health Information (which includes natural extensions to PHR's such as Personal Health Devices and Advisory Services).

Two international standards-development organizations (International Organization for Standardization - ISO and Health Level Seven - HL7) are collaborating on this survey in hopes of accommodating various business models, policies, and approaches - and fostering an environment that promotes interoperability and innovation worldwide.

The survey should take between fifteen and thirty minutes to complete - depending on the amount of supplemental, clarifying information you provide in the 'Other, Please Specify' fields. The link is:

http://fs7.formsite.com/Informatics/HL7ISOPHR/index.html 
The survey closes 31 October 2007. And, of course, those who complete the survey will receive the tabulated results via email.

The results of the survey will be used to update the HL7 PHR-System Functional Model. Note: The current version of the Model can be downloaded for free from www.HL7.org/ehr/ along with a press release that provides a bit of background.

Thanks so much for your help!
Your ISO-HL7 PHR Survey team.
Questions? Clarifications? Contact John.Ritter@intel.com  or Mitra.Rocca@novartis.com 

John Ritter; HL7 EHR TC co-chair; HL7 PHR Working Group co-facilitator; ISO TC/215 PHI Technical Report survey team member

Healthcare Standards Architect
Intel Corporation
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