Common and widespread Internet access changes the relationship between patients and health care providers, both in areas with well-developed and less developed care systems. The future of efficient healthcare relies on the competent, informed and self-caring patients. Personal Health Record (PHR) systems are emerging and strive to become a patient empowering tool that supports the patient in collecting and sharing relevant health information and thereupon take more active control over his own health situation.
Torstein Jensen et al. describe an implementation of a PHR system based on the openly available Indivo framework and discuss issues regarding adapting such a generic architecture to adhere to specific Norwegian conditions and EHR standards.
We would like to thank the authors and participants for their contributions to the symposium, without whom these proceedings would never have been possible.
ISePHR 2006 is organised by the Norwegian Centre of Electronic Health Record (NSEP), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in cooperation with the Norwegian Centre for Informatics in Health and Social Care (KiTH).
Conference Chair: Øystein Nytrø (NTNU) Program Chair:
Committee Terje Brasethvik (NSEP) Anders Grimsmo (NSEP) Arild Faxvaag (Faculty of Medicine, NTNU) Marius Mikalsen (SINTEF ICT) Per A. Frydenborg (Sunnaas Hospital) Arzu Baloglu (University of Marmara, Istanbul)
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