Final Partnerships '96 Conference Program With Transcripts of All Plenary Sessions and Selected Breakout Discussions


Transcripts of the plenary sessions and summaries of the panel discussions that took place at the conference are linked below.
These raw transcripts will be reviewed and recommendations made as necessary in the coming weeks. Please do not quote from the raw transcripts.

Sunday, May 12, 1996

Welcome-Welcome by Mark Eppinger, Executive Vice President, Annenberg Center for Health Sciences

Presentation by Mary Jo Deering, Director, Health Communications, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Opening Session-A Guided Tour of Self-Help Cyberspace, Tom Ferguson, M.D., Senior Associate, Center for Clinical Computing, Harvard Medical School

Monday, May 13, 1996

Good Morning and Welcome-Mark Eppinger, Vice President and CEO, Annenberg Center for Health Sciences

Welcome-Claude Earl Fox, M.D., M.P.H., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Disease Prevention and Health Promotion), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Keynote Address-Peter I. Juhn, M.D., M.P.H., Director of Special Studies, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.

Panel-Commercial Onramps to Consumer Health Information. Margaret Cary, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., Regional Director, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Moderator

Response Panel and Open Discussion-Tom Linden, M.D., Moderator

"What a Difference a Year Makes... or Does It?"-Reed Tuckson, M.D., President, Drew University of Medicine and Science

Concurrent Breakout Groups:

Community Access Channels: Mary Gardiner Jones, LLD, President, Alliance for Public Technology, Moderator; Jeff Finn, Director, SPRY Foundation; Lois Steele, Indian Health Service; Steve Snow, Charlotte's Web

Does It Work? (#1): Patricia F. Brennan, RN, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Nursing and Systems Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Moderator; An Economic Analysis Model for Community Services Networks: Marjorie Greene, Senior Policy Analyst, ANSER;
Evaluating Comprehensive Consumer Health Information Systems Holly B. Jimison, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics and of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University;

Tuesday, May 14, 1996

Helping Consumers Choose Health Plans

Working Partnerships: Linking research-based projects with HMOs, clinical centers, and Medicare

Making the Case for Consumer Health Education in Managed Care

Closing plenary and discussion: "Reflections and Visions"- Michael D. McDonald, Dr. PH, Director, Health and Telecommunications Office, C. Everett Koop Foundation, Inc., Moderator


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