CHCF Slides on PHR Adoption Trends

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Consumers and Health IT

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE:12:01 a.m. ET – Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Groundbreaking National Survey Findings

CALIFORNIA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION

Today’s Program

Context Setting

Survey Findings

Expert Panel

Questions & Answers

Key Survey Findings

1. Consumers with online access to their health information pay more attention to their health.

2. PHR Usage is low, but doubled in two years. One in 14 Americans say they have used PHR.

3. PHR users are young, highly educated and higher income, yet surprisingly, less educated, lower-income and chronically ill patients report greater value from using a PHR.

4. Consumers prefer to use a PHR from their health care provider.

5. Two out of three Americans are concerned about the privacy of their health information; concern is reduced by experience with and benefits received from a PHR.

PersonalHealth Record (PHR)

Ideally includes information from multiple sources

Offers a set of tools to improve communication and convenience to better manage one’s health

An electronic record of health information on an individual

Current users are young, highly educated, higher income.

Yet, less educated, lower-income and chronically ill consumers have also discovered benefits from using a PHR, even though they are using it less:

58% of users with income < $50,000 feel more connected to doctor (vs. 31% higher incomes)

55% of users w/o a college degree asked more questions (vs. 26% of college-educated users)

40% of respondents with two or more chronic conditions that use PHRs did something to improve their health (vs. 24% of others interviewed)

Who Uses and Benefits from PHRs

Expert Panel

Joshua Seidman, PhD, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Kate Christensen, MD, Kaiser Permanente

Steve Findlay, MPH, Consumers Union

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, MA, MHSA, THINK-Health and Health Populi Blog

Questions and Answers

California HealthCare Foundationwww.chcf.org

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