My Health Record: Connecting Australians with their own health information

Testing the Electronic Personal Health Record Acceptance Model by Nurses for Managing Their Own Health

K. Gartrell1; A.M. Trinkoff2; C.L. Storr2; M.L. Wilson3; A.P. Gurses4 1National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine/Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, Bethesda, MD; 2University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD; 3Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD; 4Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins School of...

The Northwest Public Health Information Exchange’s Accomplishments in Connecting a Health Information Exchange with Public Health

In 2007 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Request for Proposal for the "Situational Awareness through Health Information Exchange" project. The Situational Awareness project's goals are to connect public health with health information exchanges (HIEs) to improve public health's real-time understanding of communities' population health and healthcare facility status. ...

Europe's men need their own health strategy.

1Centre for Men’s Health, Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds LS2 8NU, UK; 2London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; 3Centre for Men’s Health, Institute of Technology Carlow, Carlow, Ireland; 4School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK; 5Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Cope...

Connecting the Dots: Health Information Technology Expansion and Health Disparities

Courtney Lyles and colleagues highlight how the expansion of patient-facing electronic health record portals could exacerbate existing healthcare disparities.

Connecting Health Care With Public & Environmental Health