“Over the past year, as the majority of communities developing health information exchanges struggle to make progress (with a few failing outright), health record banks (HRBs) have received increasing attention as a model for successful community health information infrastructure (HII). There is a growing realization that other approaches do NOT solve the critical problems of HII that are addressed by HRBs, namely,
- Making all the health record information electronic
- Assuring stakeholder cooperation
- Providing financial sustainability, and
- Earning public trust.
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Yasnoff on eHealth, 26 January 2008
