Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power & Potential of Personal Health Records

June 17, 2009 Project HealthDesign was created by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to explore the potential of personal health records (PHRs) to help people make sense of their daily health and take informed actions. Nine grantee teams received funding to create prototype user-centered computer, PDA, or cell phone applications that addressed specific self-management tasks to promote better health and wellness. A key insight of the 18-month project was the importance of cues people notice as they monitor their health. Frequently, people using the PHRs relied on information taken from observations of daily living (ODLs), such as . . .