“In about an hour’s time I will head downtown to participate in yet another Commonwealth of Massachusetts HIE Consumer Workgroup meeting. The workgroup, formed by the Secretary of Health last Spring, is charged with insuring that the strategic HIE and more broadly, HIT plans for Massachusetts be inclusive of consumers’ future needs.
Now what those needs may be creates some challenges. The workgroup, representing a number of constituencies in the Commonwealth, has struggled to reach consensus oas topics have ranged from simple consumer education, via brochures in doctors’ offices, to providing consumers ready access to personal health information that may be aggregated within the context of an HIE to addressing consent on the sharing of PHI within the context of care delivery.”
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John Moore, Chilmark Research, 22 September 2010
