Caban Resources has a New Look and a Fresh Face

Check out the newly updated Caban Resources website, www.cabanresources.com for some cool new features like their list of HIT schools and health care trade groups. Also they've added a face to the name as featured on the home page!

Can PHRs make you healthier?

The latest news in Personal Health Records (PHRs) is that our government is spending to find out if maintaining a PHR will improve your health. I can't see why it wouldn't as closely watching your finances typically improves your financial health. Also mentioned is that PHR may someday be as ubiquitous as tax prep software is today - quite a concept!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080205/ap_on_he_me/healthbeat_digital_health

AHIMA's new myPHR

AHIMA announced today it's new personal health record site: http://www.myphr.com/
I'm glad that we have something out there to connect with but we still have a ways to go. Any ideas?

American Health Information Community - AHIC

The US Department of Health Services has a forum for the development of standards for the health information technology community. That includes everyone who works with medical records. In fact, one of our own - Jill Callahan Dennis is on the Confidentiality, Privacy & Security Workgroup

It's important that AHIMA professionals have a voice in this matter and that we all stay informed on the decisions made here - everything that happens here affects us all! Check out the video if you have 4 hours to spend (OK, OK so you don't have that time but you can fast forward thru it!)

http://www.videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp?c=70