ONC to Host eConsent Pilot Program Roundtable

The ONC will be hosting an upcoming roundtable event on October 22nd to discuss the launch of their  eConsent pilot project. The roundtable will discuss why the ONC initiated the eConsent project, the important role of informed patient choice (or patient consent) in electronic health information exchange (eHIE), and announce the launch of the eConsent pilot. The discussion will be led by Joy Pritts, Chief Privacy Officer, Kathryn Marchesini, eConsent Project Lead, and other members of the ONC.

If you are in the D.C. area you can attend the event.

eConsent Pilot Program Roundtable: Enabling Meaningful Choice for Patients in Electronic Health Information Exchange

Date: Monday, October 22, 2012
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
Location: Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Research Studies Center; Gaylord/Cary Meeting Room
Elm & Carlton Streets
Buffalo, NY 14263

Learning objectives include:

• The importance of providing patients with meaningful choice and efforts designed to help reduce burdens on health care providers about informing patients about their choice.
• The piloting of interactive technology to deliver educational material to patients about their option to make an individual choice about whether or not their health care provider can access their health information through a health information exchange (HIE).
• The capability of electronically capturing a patient’s choice (or consent decision) in a health care provider facility.

For more information about the eConsent project, visit the Health IT Buzz blog.