Electronic Health Records for Health Promotion
Electronic Health Records for Health Promotion
The purpose of this study is to determine whether personally controlled electronic health
 records can be used for health promotion in a workplace setting.
In response to the call for research of the new Health Protection Research Initiative at the
 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we propose to adapt newly mature
 informatics technology to shift the paradigm for health alerting and health promotion in the
 workplace. The goal is to firmly ground these activities on real time information collected
 from and delivered to employees, in an interactive, secure, electronic environment. We will
 study influenza prevention and control, an archetype of public health practice requiring
 surveillance, communication, and timely influence of health-related behaviors. Complex
 information gleaned from surveillance will be processed, translated and provided to
 employees. The goal is to provide employees with timely, individualized health promotion
 messages to improve their knowledge, attitudes and beliefs regarding influenza and to
 increase the rate of seasonal influenza immunization for them and their household members.
 The approach will be evaluated in a group randomized design at several worksites of a major
 corporation.
Inclusion Criteria:

 1. The subject is a part-time or full-time employee at a major corporation.

 2. The subject is eighteen years of age or older.

 3. The subject is comfortable reading and writing in English.

 4. The subject has reliable internet access at home, at school, or at work.

 5. The subject uses email regularly (i.e. at least once every 2 days)

 6. The subject does not have a known allergy to chicken eggs or a history of a severe
 reaction to an influenza vaccination in the past.

 Exclusion Criteria:

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