1	Primary Care Informatics Prime Time for Primary Care! Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2	Take Home Message When you come to a fork in the road… Take it!
3	Players ‘2003 Institute of Medicine (Patient Safety Data Standards Subcommittee) eHealth Initiative Markle Foundation NAPCI (National Alliance for Primary Care Informatics AAFP (American Academy of Family Practice) HL 7 (Health Level 7) Etc.
4	DHHS Initiative To the IOM: Define the near term, intermediate term, and long range minimal functionality of the EHR that supports patient safety (reduction of errors of commission and omission?) To HL7: develop a Functional Model and Standard to describe a set of desired functionality for an electronic health record.
5	Summary of IOM Report Report generation Basic demographic info Lab results eprescribing Defined sets of health info Clinical guideline support Care plan implementation Information exchange Some regional EHRs
6	eHealth Initiative Vision Consumers, health care providers, and those responsible for population health will have ready access to timely, relevant, reliable and secure information and services through an interconnected, electronic health information infrastructure to support better health and healthcare.
7	eHealth Initiative As part of our vision, we would like to see: Interoperable, electronic health records in the office of every clinician and healthcare organization; The use of data standards and connectivity to enable secure exchange of data amongst practicing clinicians, hospitals and other healthcare organizations, public health, payers and other key stakeholders; Clinicians who have the information they need to make the best clinical decisions at the right time; Consumers, patients and caregivers who have the information they need to manage and address their own health care needs.
8	Connecting For Health Connecting for Heath, an extraordinary collaboration of more than 100 public and private stakeholders representing every part of the health care system, has just released the results of its effort to bring electronic connectivity to healthcare to improve patient care, lower costs and protect privacy. Their achievements in just nine months toward the adoption of healthcare data standards represents progress that has eluded the healthcare industry for more than a decade. Despite a pace and a set of goals that many thought hard to achieve, Connecting for Health announced unprecedented progress in several key areas ….
9	Our Task Visibility, involvement, evangelism of primary care issues
10	Our Tasks VISIBILITY: Defining Primary Care Informatics (PCI) INVOLVEMENT: Research Issues in PCI EVANGELISM: Practice Issues that relate to PCI