Catch us at the 2006 PHR conference in Washington DC

The CareTALK Gals are traveling to Washington DC to attend the PHR conference sponsored by the Markle Foundation and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (For those of you who know us: Yes, we’re actually leaving our desks and phones to attend a conference.) However, this isn’t just any conference, this is the 2006 national conference: Connecting Americans to their Health Care: Empowered Consumers, Personal Health Records and Emerging Technologies. (Ok, for those of you who may not be impressed yet, check out who the lunch keynote speaker is for Thursday, Dec. 7th -- That’s right, it’s Adam Bosworth, VP of Google.)

You can draw your own conclusions but we believe it’s a big deal when a VP of Google is giving a keynote at the conference for personal health records just days after he wrote an entry on the official Google Blog (for those who haven’t read it, you can read it here) regarding Google’s goal to help solve some of the issues with the health care system. (Google Health, anyone?)

We wholeheartedly endorse this badly needed, pivotal, collaborative effort and its participants in validating the need for PHR utilities so that caregivers can be empowered to better manage increasingly complex challenges yet to come. Thank you to our friends at the Markle Foundation for facilitating this wonderful conference.

We are proud to collaborate with these initiatives with modern family caregivers.

Check back soon, we will certainly give you our impressions and a recap of the conference!