July 30, 2005 by admin
Mary Johnson, a librarian in Eugene, OR, speaks about her experience with The Shared Care Plan, a personal health record. Please take a look.
You may be pleasantly surprised what happens when patients get their own medical record that they can use and share as needed.
The work to create the Shared Care Plan originated from a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant–Pursuing Perfection and was then supplemented by an AHRQ Safety Implementation Grant aimed at creating a single accurate medication list within a community and learning how to implement such a list. The patients in Whatcom County, WA, Eugene, OR, and Florence, OR, have all played an invaluable role in defining what they need and how to spread it. The patients have been and continue to be the designers. Now they are teaching us how to spread it to others.
