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Research Paper?
Patient Web Services Integrated with a Shared Medical Record:
Patient Use and Satisfaction
A b s t r a c t
Web site providing a shared medical record between patients and health professionals at Group Health
Cooperative, a mixed-model health care financing and delivery organization based in Seattle, Washington.
Design: This study used a retrospective, serial, cross-sectional study from September 2002 through December 2005
and a mailed satisfaction survey of a random sampling of 2,002 patients.
Measurements: This study measured the adoption and use of a patient Web site (MyGroupHealth) from
September 2002 through December 2005.
Results: As of December 2005, 25% (105,047) of all Group Health members had registered and completed an
identification verification process enabling them to use all of the available services on MyGroupHealth.
Identification verification was more common among patients receiving care in the Integrated Delivery System
(33%) compared with patients receiving care in the network (7%). As of December 2005, unique monthly user
rates per 1,000 adult members were the highest for review of medical test results (54 of 1,000), medication refills
(44 of 1,000), after-visit-summaries (32 of 1,000), and patient–provider clinical messaging (31 of 1,000). The
response rate for the patient satisfaction survey was 46% (n ? 921); 94% of survey respondents were satisfied or
very satisfied with MyGroupHealth overall. Patients reported highest satisfaction (satisfied or very satisfied) for
medication refills (96%), patient–provider messaging (93%), and medical test results (86%).
Conclusion: Use and satisfaction with MyGroupHealth were greatest for accessing services and information
involving ongoing, active care and patient–provider communication. Tight integration of Web services with
clinical information systems and patient–provider relationships may be important in meeting the needs of patients.
? J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007;14:798–806. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M2302.
Objectives: This study sought to describe the evolution, use, and user satisfaction of a patient
Several health care institutions have implemented secure
patient Web sites that integrate online health services into
the patient–provider relationship and into clinical care.
Patient Web sites that provide patient access to electronic
medical records (EMR) and electronic patient–provider com-
munication can support more transparent and active sharing
of personal health information. Promoting patient access to
EMRs and patient–provider messaging through the Web
may encourage patient activation and more effective part-
nerships with providers.1–8Early, small-scale studies of
patient Web sites suggest that patients may particularly
value secure messaging with physicians and access to med-
ical records.7,9–12Patients also seem to value online medi-
cation refill services.11To inform future development of
online services for patients, we need to better understand
what services are used and valued by patients in community
health care settings.
We performed a study of a patient Web site at Group Health
Cooperative (Group Health), a mixed-model health care
system in Washington and Idaho. The patient Web site,
MyGroupHealth, was developed in 2000 as part of a larger
redesign of care at Group Health that targeted patient-
centered access to care. In keeping with the goal of redesign-
ing around patients' needs, Group Health integrated the
patient Web site into clinical care and patient–provider
relationships before full implementation of the clinical infor-
mation system for providers. MyGroupHealth offered dif-
ferent services to patients depending on whether care oc-
curred in Group Health's Integrated Delivery System or in
its contracted network of providers. Compared with patients
in the network, patients in the Integrated Delivery System
had access to a more extensive shared EMR and to secure
electronic messaging with providers. Patients receiving care
in the contracted network had access to a more limited set of
personal health services, including review of an active
medication list, requests for medication refills, and secure
messaging with a pharmacist. We first describe develop-
ment ofMyGroupHealth.Next, wereport onMy-
Affiliations of the authors: Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA.
This study was supported by the Agency for Health Care Research
and Quality (Grant No. R03 HS014625-01) and by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation's Changes in Health Care Financing and Or-
ganization Initiative (Grant No. 52229).
Correspondence: James D. Ralston, MD, MPH, Center for Health
Studies, Group Health Cooperative, 1730 Minor Avenue, Suite 1600,
Seattle, WA 98101-1448; e-mail: ?firstname.lastname@example.com?.
Received forreview:10/05/2006;
accepted forpublication:
Ralston et al., Patient Web Services
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GroupHealth access, use, and satisfaction based on earlier
small-scale and qualitative studies.7,9–11Related hypotheses
include: (1) registration for MyGroupHealth would grow for
all Group Health patients; (2) among patients in the Inte-
grated Delivery System, registration would grow more
quickly after implementation of the shared EMR; and (3)
patient use and satisfaction would be the greatest for secure
patient–provider messaging, review of medical test results,
and medication refills.
Setting and Population
Group Health Cooperative is a mixed-model health care
financing and delivery organization in Washington State
and North Idaho. Over 300,000 members receive care
through Group Health's Integrated Delivery System, which
includes 20 Group Health–owned facilities and over 500
Group Health physicians. Approximately 200,000 additional
Group Health members receive care through a network of
contracted physicians and other health care providers across
Washington State.
Web site. Over the next three years, Group Health continued
to add and enhance services on the site. In August 2001, the
patient Web site began to offer different services to Group
Health patients depending on whether a patient received
care in the Integrated Delivery System or in Group Health's
contracted network. A member was considered in the Inte-
grated Delivery System if he or she had a primary care
provider in a Group Health–owned clinic. Table 1 shows the
MyGroupHealth services available from August 2003 on-
ward according to whether a patient received care in the
Integrated Delivery System or the contracted network. Fig-
ures 1A and 1B show the times that these services were
available for patients.
The MyGroupHealth patient Web site had two levels of
security. At the initial level (registration only), a patient
created a password-protected account on the Web site. At
this level, the user of MyGroupHealth could not exchange
personally identifiable health information with Group
Health. All health information or assessment tools at this
level, with the exception of discussion groups, did not retain
or share information beyond the user's session. Members
could access discussion groups on several topics and were
encouraged to create a nonidentifying pseudonym in these
groups. Group Health discouraged disclosure of personally
identifiable information in the discussion groups. If person-
ally identifying information was disclosed in the discussion
groups, Group Health's facilitator assessed the information
and determined if it warranted removal.
The second and higher level of security provided access to
the medical record shared between a patient and his or her
providers. Access to this security level required each patient
to complete an additional step verifying the patient's iden-
tity (ID verification) to ensure that the patient was the
person seeking access to his or her medical record. After this
step, patients signed the MyGroupHealth User Agreement
(Appendix A, available as a JAMIA online only data sup-
plement at www.jamia.org). At this second level of security,
patients and Group Health providers shared clinical and
other personal health information. All information shared
by a patient in this environment was part of the medical
record and available to a patient's Group Health providers.
During the study period, Group Health provided two dif-
ferent means of obtaining ID verification for access to the
second level of security. Between August 2000 and August
2003, patients could only gain access by first presenting
valid identification (a driver's license or passport) at a
Group Health clinic. Patients then received a temporary
password for access to services. The patient changed the
password at the next sign-on to MyGroupHealth. Beginning
in August 2003, patients could also ID-verify for enhanced
services through an online request for a temporary pass-
word that was sent through the United States Postal Service
to a patient's home address. The temporary password was
active for 14 days from the time of request.
Table 1 y Patient Services on MyGroupHealth Web Site
Level of AccessLocation of Provider
Integrated Delivery
Healthwise knowledge base
Discussion groups
Health assessment tools
Choose a primary care provider
Appointment requests
Shared medical record
Pharmacy refills and list of medications
Secure messaging to and from health care team
Medical test results
After-visit summaries
Medical conditions
List of allergies
Immunization history
*Registration only: patients entered Group Health identification number and a self-selected password on the Group Health Web site.
†ID verification: after confirmation of personal identity at a Group Health clinic or through the U.S. mail, patients entered a temporary
password provided by Group Health and signed a user agreement.
‡Integrated Delivery System: patients who seek care by Group Health providers in Group Health–owned clinics.
§Contracted Network: patients who seek care in Group Health's network of contracted health care providers.
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Transactions over the patient Web site were considered part
of care provided to members of Group Health. Group
Health providers were salaried and were expected to engage
in secure messaging with patients. Group Health did not
carve out pay for staff to provide electronic services to
patients. Providers were given an incentive of $5 per mes-
sage beyond their salary to encourage electronic patient–
provider messaging. Group Health did not consider this a
reimbursement. Secure messages from patients to a personal
physician or other provider were first routed to the appro-
priate provider by support staff to ensure a timely reply.
Individual providers were responsible for handling secure
messages from patients or referring the message to a nurse
for an appropriate reply. Physicians and other staff were
accountable for meeting expectations for patient communi-
cation through messaging. Response time was tracked every
day. If messages were not responded to within one business
day, the physician was contacted and offered assistance in
meeting patient expectations. Secure messages between pa-
tients and providers automatically became part of the EMR.
Refill requests over the patient Web site were handled by
pharmacists. A provider's support staff handled appoint-
ment requests. Normal test results were visible to patients
on MyGroupHealth at the same time they were available for
the physician. Physicians could send messages alongside
any result visible by patients, and each medical test result
was hyperlinked to an explanation of the test in the Health-
wise knowledge base. Most abnormal laboratory tests also
were automatically released to patients on MyGroupHealth
at the same time the tests became available for physicians to
review. Some abnormal laboratory test results as well as
all pathology and radiology results required manual
release by physicians. In June 2004, Group Health began
sending notification messages to the regular e-mail ac-
counts of all patients with new laboratory test results who
had a MyGroupHealth account. These messages alerted
patients that new results were available to view on
All Group Health physicians delivering ambulatory care
in the Integrated Delivery System used the EpicCare
clinical information system (Epic Systems Corp., Verona,
WI), which integrates clinical communication and infor-
mation processes into a single interface. This interface
included electronic patient scheduling, physician order
entry (e.g., laboratory tests, prescriptions, referrals), sys-
tematic clinical documentation, clinical decision support,
clinical messaging among physicians, secure online mes-
saging with patients, and automated reminders at the
point of care.
Patients receiving care in Group Health's contracted net-
work had more limited functionality on MyGroupHealth.
Providers in this network were in predominantly rural,
private-practice settings. At the time of the study, these
practices did not have clinical information systems that
could link with MyGroupHealth. For patients receiving care
in the contracted network and who were ID-verified,
MyGroupHealth had pharmacy services similar to those in
the Integrated Delivery System, including access to a list of
current and historical medications along with a medication
refill service that provided free mailing of medications to a
patient's home.
As of March 2007, Group Health had not received reports
of violations of the Health Insurance Privacy and Porta-
bility Act or broad security breaches. One potential and
temporary security breach occurred when a member's
online record was accessed inappropriately by a family
member who had the patient's password but did not have
durable power of attorney for health care (DPOA) for the
patient. A request for a change in password associated
with this access to the patient Web site triggered a
confirmation letter to the son, who had DPOA. The son
contacted Group Health's Customer Service Center, and
the password was changed to restrict access to only the
son with DPOA. Group Health knows of no other real or
potential security breaches.
F i g u r e 1.
Access to MyGroupHealth by adult members.
Ralston et al., Patient Web Services
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We performed a retrospective, serial, cross-sectional study
of the adoption and use of the patient Web site from
September 1, 2002, through December 31, 2005, and a
cross-sectional satisfaction survey of patients who used
MyGroupHealth in August 2004. The Group Health institu-
tional review board approved our study.
Study of Patient Web Site ID Verification and Use
The study of patient ID verification and use of MyGroupHealth
followed a retrospective, serial cross-sectional study design.
All patients who received care in the Integrated Delivery
System or in the contracted network from September 1, 2002,
to January 31, 2005, were included in the study. We obtained
enrollment data and MyGroupHealth use data from Group
Health administrative databases. During the study pe-
riod, we measured access to MyGroupHealth through the
cumulative monthly registration and ID verification of
patients. We measured MyGroupHealth use by determin-
ing the number of unique monthly users of individual
MyGroupHealth services. The population of patients adopt-
ing MyGroupHealth was divided into two groups reflecting
the different levels of access to MyGroupHealth services.
The first group encompassed those who completed the first
of a two-level registration process. This group (registration
only) had access to basic MyGroupHealth services (Table 1).
The second group encompassed those who had gone
through the second step of registration (ID verification) for
access to enhanced services such as EMRs and secure
messaging. Patients in both of the registration groups (reg-
istration only and ID verification) were further divided into
those who received primary care in the Integrated Delivery
System and those who received care in the contracted
network of providers.
To evaluate the impact of full implementation of the shared
record on Web site ID verification in the Integrated Delivery
System, we compared cumulative ID verification during the
16 months before and the 16 months after the implemen-
tation of Epic's MyChart (August 2003). We compared
cumulative patient ID verification among patients in the
contracted network for the same period to test the isolated
impact of adding the option of postal ID verification to
in-person ID verification.
To test for differences in the rates of use over time, we
compared the use of those services thought to be most
actively part of clinical care (secure messaging, laboratory
results reporting, after-visit summaries, and medication
refills) to other services of the shared record (allergy list,
immunization list, appointment scheduling, and diagnoses
list). Access and use data were obtained monthly from
August 2003 to December 2005. Due to high monthly vari-
ability in Web site use data, we selected December of each
calendar year as representative of Web site use for the
evaluation of change in use rates over time.
Among members receiving care in the Integrated Delivery
System, we compared selected demographic and health
characteristics in those with and without ID verification for
the patient Web site. Due to the limits of data availability
among members receiving care in the contracted network,
we limited this analysis to members in the Integrated
Delivery System. Members with Medicaid insurance were
grouped with members in Washington State's Basic Health
Plan, an insurance program for low-income individuals and
families not qualifying for Medicaid. Expected clinical need
was assessed with the six Resource Utilization Bands of the
Adjusted Clinical Group case-mix system.13–15
Patient Satisfaction Survey
We conducted a patient satisfaction survey of patients who
used MyGroupHealth in August 2004 (Appendix B, avail-
able as a JAMIA online only data supplement at www.jamia.
org). A survey cover letter from the Medical Director of
Group Health provided basic information about the survey.
Survey questions were based on a patient satisfaction ques-
tionnaire formerly used to evaluate annual patient satisfac-
tion with Group Health.
We randomly sampled 2,002 Group Health patients who,
during August 2004, had access to enhanced MyGroupHealth
services and who had used secure clinical messaging, re-
quested an appointment over MyGroupHealth, viewed the
results of 10 or more medical tests, or viewed 10 or more pages
of the Healthwise knowledge base. We chose this sampling
strategy to achieve a common baseline of user experience for
assessing satisfaction with the Web site's different services.
The survey was administered on paper and mailed to the
sample group in mid-September 2004. Mailed surveys were
used instead of Web surveys to preserve Group Health's
standard for limiting e-mail contact with patients to alerts or
prompts when a new secure message or test result was
available to view on MyGroupHealth. This helped ensure
that Group Health fulfilled a consistent expectation by
patients that all e-mail was focused on alerting them to
issues directly related to their care. Additionally, mailed
surveys minimized potential response bias and risk of low
response rate associated with missing or incorrect patient
e-mail addresses in Group Health's administrative systems.
Respondents were asked to rate satisfaction on a 5-point Likert
scale from "very satisfied" to "very dissatisfied". Respondents
of the survey, participants were also asked to provide addi-
tional feedback about MyGroupHealth's relevance to their
health care needs. Surveys were collected for four weeks after
the mailing. No follow-up contacts were made with nonre-
spondents. Nine hundred twenty-one patients completed the
survey (overall response rate 46%). Respondents were similar
in age (most common age group, 50 to 59 years) and gender
(61% female) to the overall ID-verified population. Respon-
dents rated an average of 5.45 (SD ? 1.59) of the 7 questions.
The proportion of respondents answering "not applicable" for
survey questions ranged from 12.5% for pharmacy refills to
35.6% for appointment requests.
Statistical Analysis
Demographic characteristics were summarized separately
for patients in the Integrated Delivery System and in the
contracted network. Chi-square tests were used to test for
demographic differences between groups. To evaluate the
impact of the inclusion of enhanced Web site services and
the implementation of ID verification through the postal
service, we fit piecewise-linear regression models to esti-
mate the change in cumulative adoption (ID verification) of
the patient Web site over time. The models fit a change point
at September 2003, corresponding to the first month in
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which the enhanced Web site services and postal ID verifi-
cation were available. We compared the regression coeffi-
cient for time (slope of the regression line) before and after
September 2003 separately for the Integrated Delivery Sys-
tem and contracted network patient groups.
Linear regression models also were used to evaluate
whether use of specific Web site services increased at a more
rapid rate than other services. Web site services were
separated into two groups: (1) services most actively part of
clinical care and patient–provider communication, including
secure messaging, laboratory results reporting, after-visit
summaries, and medication refills; and (2) the remaining
Web site services, including allergy list, immunization list,
appointment scheduling, and medical condition list. Regres-
sion models fit a common slope (rate of change in the
number of unique monthly users per 1,000 patients over
time) within each of the two groups of Web site services, but
allowed for individual intercepts for each service type.
To evaluate patient satisfaction with Web site services, we
used the McNemar test for equal proportions to test the
proportion of respondents satisfied (satisfied or very satis-
fied) and the proportion very satisfied with each specific
MyGroupHealth service compared with the proportion of
satisfaction with MyGroupHealth overall. Statistical proce-
dures were performed using STATA statistical software,
version 9 (StataCorp LP, College Station, TX).16
Table 2 shows selected characteristics of patients who re-
ceived care in the Integrated Delivery System compared
with the contracted network as of December 2005. Com-
pared with patients who received care in the network,
patients in the Integrated Delivery System were older (p ?
0.01), less likely to have commercial or Medicaid insurance,
and more likely to have Medicare insurance (p ? 0.01).
Study of Patient Web Site ID-Verification and Use
Access to MyGroupHealth
Cumulative ID verification for access to MyGroupHealth
increased throughout the study period. For combined Inte-
grated Delivery System and contracted network enrollment,
ID verification for access to all available MyGroupHealth
services increased from 13,579 (3%) in September 2002 to
105,047 (25%) in December 2005. Registration limited to
basic MyGroupHealth services increased from 38,876 (9%)
to 60,284 (14%) during the same period.
Figures 1A and 1B show the cumulative percent of adult
members who were ID verified for access to all services and
the percent registered for access to basic services only. In the
Integrated Delivery System (Figure 1A), ID verification
increased continuously from 5% in September 2002 to 33% in
December 2005. Registration for access limited to basic
services increased initially from 11% in September 2002 to
15% in January 2004 and then stayed between 15% and 16%
for the remaining 23 months of the study period. In the
contracted network (Figure 1B), ID verification and basic
registration were both less common than in the Integrated
Delivery System. ID verification in the contracted network
(Figure 1B) increased continuously from 0.5% to 6% during
the study period. Registration for access limited to basic
services also increased continuously during the study period
from 5% to 13%. In the contracted network, the percent of
members who were ID verified for enhanced access (phar-
macy refills and a personal medication list) never increased
above the percent of members with registration limited to
basic services. In the Integrated Delivery System, cumulative
ID verification began to exceed basic registration in February
Enhancements to MyGroupHealth in August 2003 were
associated with a significant increase in ID verification
among members in the Integrated Delivery System. In the
Integrated Delivery System, piecewise-linear regression
models comparing cumulative ID verification before and
after August 2003 showed that trends were different (p ?
0.001), with a mean monthly change in cumulative ID
verification of 0.58% of members before enhancements and
0.90% after enhancements. Cumulative increases in ID ver-
ification did not have a discernible plateau during the study
period. In the contracted network, monthly cumulative ID
verification in the prestudy and poststudy periods also
differed (p ? 0.001), with mean monthly change in ID
verification rate of 0.08% of members during the prestudy
period and of 0.19% during the poststudy period.
Table 3 shows selected demographic and health character-
istics of members receiving care in the Integrated Delivery
System who were and were not ID-verified for the patient
Web site. Members who were ID-verified were more likely
to be female (p ? 0.01), have commercial insurance (p ?
0.01), and have higher expected clinical need (p ? 0.01).
Use of the Shared Record
All portions of the shared EMR had increases in unique
monthly use rates. Figure 2 shows the unique monthly users
of each Web service for every 1,000 members with Group
Health insurance where the service was available. The
member denominator for this figure is the total number of
individuals enrolled in Group Health insurance for that
year, regardless of whether a member sought care with a
provider during the time period. At the end of the study
(December 2005), unique monthly users per 1,000 adult
members for MyGroupHealth services were as follows, from
Table 2 y Characteristics of the Group Health
Cooperative Member Population, January 2006
Location of Provider
(n ? 325,634)
(n ? 201,969) (n ? 527,603)
Age, %
0–14 yr
15–53 yr
54–65 yr
66? yr
Male, %
Insurance type, %
*Integrated Delivery System: patients who seek care by Group
Health providers in Group Health–owned clinics.
†Contracted Network: patients who seek care in Group Health's
network of contracted health care providers.
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CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in app/models/product.rb
git status shows the following:
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# Unmerged paths:
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# (use "git add/rm <file>..." as appropriate to mark resolution)
# deleted by us: app/controllers/orders_controller.rb
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... Muscovy ducks which seem to want to greet everyone who comes in. The female (white) hisses and wags her tail a bit as she's clearly not happy but she doesn't want to be left behind. I was taking a few photos of them and was bending down with my iPad when, surprise surprise, the black and white male one pecked me! No bread for them for supper. We've just met an 80yo man here who originated from England but ...
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... Directly after the turn there was a gas-station and a A&W Burger. As it was about two o'clock and we were running empty, we decided to pay both a visit. Now after ordering at A&W we had to wait for like ten minutes. Then they came up to tell us that due to an mistake they made they would have to do the order again which would take 12 minutes, but that they would of course refund us if we declined.
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This morning I woke up when Eleanor did and moved into her room which was actually mine but she can't sleep with anyone in her room when she's sleeping so I had to sleep on the mattress until she woke up. It was ok, bit not ideal. Then we played around a bunch while the Gus went golfing. Katherine Didi Eleanor and i swam some in the pool and it was really warm. Like 90 degrees warm. It was AWESOME!! For dinner we ate smokies and some other stuff and then I went to ...
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I spent another day in the mountains today and the smell of some of the trees was absolutely amazing. I did not see any cut trees, but it was like the smell at Christmas time if you go to buy a fresh cut tree. I can't believe how many different types of landscape I saw. I started looking down into a valley full of farms and hay fields, ...
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This is my second artist's palette in the same week! This one is much bigger. The only thing not edible are the little easels. I would have made them out of fondant/gumpaste, but this cake has to survive a 1.5 hour drive and I didn't think gumpaste easels would make it. Quite fun to make though.
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As a physician, academic and senior vice president at UPMC, Dr. Webster has a long track record of establishing and maintaining relationships with physicians and community hospitals, a critical skill for his work on the commission. Given UPMC's "exemplary service" and long history with the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center of Pittsburgh, Dr. Webster's ties to UPMC "will be particularly beneficial to the Commission on Care," Sen. Casey noted. Since the passage of the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act, UPMC has received hundreds of referrals from the VA to better provide veterans with quality and timely care.
Since 2012, Dr. Webster has served as senior vice president of UPMC, working on strategic development. He also oversees graduate medical education for UPMC and serves as interim chair of the Department of Anesthesiology. From 2002 to 2012, he was president of the University of Pittsburgh Physicians, president of the UPMC Physician Services Division and executive vice president of UPMC.
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1 Tbsp chopped garlic
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4 oz ham, bacon or pancetta (julienne cut)
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Charlie Weis was discussing the difficulty of containing LeSean McCoy when the Notre Dame coach stopped in mid-sentence the way the Pitt tailback does on a dime.
"That was him, wasn't it, the cutback screen in overtime?" Weis said. "Cut it on the right, went all the way to the left."
McCoy was magical in a marathon that lasted four hours and four overtimes, rushing for a game-high 169 yards and, most impressively, gaining 16 key yards on a pivotal pass play in Pitt's 36-33 victory over the Fighting Irish Saturday.
It marked McCoy's fifth consecutive game with 140 or more yards this season. The sophomore sensation became only the third Pitt rusher - and first since Curvin Richards in 1988-89 - to surpass the 1,000-yard mark in successive seasons. Tony Dorsett had four consecutive from 1973-76.
"Great players do a lot of things that you don't coach," Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt said. "That's LeSean."
The performance before a national television audience might have helped McCoy enter another race. If he can continue at this torrid pace, McCoy should be a lock for All-American honors, should become the frontrunner for the Doak Walker Award, presented to the nation's top running back, and could emerge as a darkhorse candidate for the Heisman Trophy.
Pitt is already in the process of making a national push for McCoy to gain attention. It put up a highlight video on www.leseanmccoy25.com prior to the Notre Dame game. Pitt spokesman E.J. Borghetti called the video a "greatest hits package."
Borghetti said the process for hyping McCoy and other awards candidates began after Pitt's 13-9 victory at West Virginia last year in the 100th Backyard Brawl.
"We knew we had the foundation of a strong team coming back and had scored a monumental upset that the country saw," Borghetti said. "We thought it was a natural to get LeSean and Tony (Dorsett) together because LeSean had broken some of Tony's records, and it's very important to bring your past together with your present.
"When it comes to individual honors and awards like the Heisman, the best thing is to make your candidate available to the media on a frequent basis. If he keeps on this pace, we'll have even more opportunities."
The 5-foot-11, 210-pound McCoy has the statistics to back up the hype. He ranks second nationally in scoring, at 11.3 points a game, and sixth in rushing (125.5 yards). His numbers compare favorably over the past five games to the nation's top five rushers and are exceeded only by Louisiana-Lafayette's Tyrell Fenroy, who plays in the mid-major Sun Belt Conference.
McCoy also ranks first among the NCAA's active career leaders in rushing yards per game (116.6) and carries per game (23.4) - signaling his combination of productivity and durability - and his 29 rushing touchdowns and 528 carries also rank in the top 20. McCoy already ranks eighth in Pitt history, with 2,332 career rushing yards, and needs 107 to pass Kevan Barlow.
"He's got a lot of ability," Weis said. "He can run inside and out."
What separates McCoy from the nation's top five backs is his ability to make plays out of the pass game. He has the most receiving yards (127) and yards per catch (11.5), and his 11 receptions trail only Javon Ringer's 14. McCoy had two receptions for 23 yards against the Irish - giving him 192 all-purpose yards - and the one to which Weis referred was McCoy's most spectacular run of the game.
It came in the third overtime, after right tackle Joe Thomas was flagged for a false-start penalty to give the Panthers a second-and-14 at the 29. Pat Bostick threw a screen pass in the right flat to McCoy, who reversed field and turned the left corner as tight end Nate Byham leveled a defender with a block. The play accounted for 16 yards and led to Conor Lee's 26-yard field goal.
"We were going to try to be as limited as we possibly could throwing the ball," Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt said. "Up here on the road with the noise and everything, let LeSean win it."
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To artists and designers, a home is a canvas on which they can project themselves, a testing ground for creative impulses, a place to display the objects that inspire them, a venue for experimentation with forms and materials that later appear in their own work. In this unique volume, photographer Bärbel Miebach captures the unique spirit of the private living quarters of twenty-five internationally known figures including Ellsworth Kelly, Catherine Malandrino, Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz, Andres Serrano, Hunt Slonem, Vivienne Tam, and Andrea Zittel.
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Serving at the Altar of Art Frank Faulkner
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Taking the Edge Off Fritz Haeg
A French Romance on the Hudson River Catherine Malandrino
Architecture Against Mortality Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins
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Snow White and Pristine Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz
A Courageous Collaboration Barbara Gross
A Living Tradition Will Barnet
Master of All He Surveys Christopher Bortugno
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Google says its data suggest Web site visitors are more likely to edit their targeting profile than to opt out of all ad targeting.
Nine months ago, when Google first introduced behavioral ad targeting, it also rolled out an ad preferences manager. The page allows Web site visitors to edit their advertising interest categories -- for instance confirm an interest in cars or entertainment -- or to opt out of behavioral targeting altogether.
As it turns out, relatively few users visit the page, and among those who do only a small fraction opt out, according to Google. The finding suggests that those who seek out the page are predominantly comfortable with Google's behavioral ad practices.
Each week, tens of thousands of individuals navigate to the page, according to Nicole Wong, Google deputy general counsel. Of those who visit, she said four times as many people edit their targeting profile as opt out of targeting completely.
Perhaps more telling, the number of people who take no action at all is 10 times higher than the number who opt out of ad targeting. Most people click through to the page either through a display ad on the Google content network or through the recently launched Google accounts dashboard.
"A good percentage of users are saying they'd rather control [behavioral targeting] than opt out," said Wong.
A rough calculation suggests that at the most, about 6,600 of Google's users are opting out of ad targeting per week. The figure is based on a generous estimate that the site captures 99,000 visitors on an average week -- the most possible if the site is indeed capturing tens of thousands yet not more than 100,000 visitors, as Google indicated to ClickZ. Under this estimate:
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x 4 = 26,400 (number of users editing preferences)
x 10 = 66,000 (number of users taking no action)
The sum of those three is 99,000 -- again, the maximum number of weekly visitors to page, according to Google.
When Google launched its ad preferences page in March, it was not the first to let Web site visitors excuse themselves from behavior-based ad targeting. The Network Advertising Initiative has for years offered that option on its Web site. Individuals opting out through the NAI will find themselves excluded from behavioral targeting on all NAI member sites and ad networks -- including AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, ValueClick, AudienceScience, BlueKai, and Google.
Just last week, Yahoo introduced a behavioral ad preferences manager of its own, allowing users to control targeting categories and opt out, just as Google's system does.
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