Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“I spoke recently with Dr. Thomas Jones, chairman of the Health Record Bank’s Principles Committee, who will be presenting at the Healthcare and Information Management Systems Society annual conference in February in Orlando, Fla.
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Shabo A. Informatics for Health & Social Care, 35(3-4)
Older people have more health issues and use more healthcare services than young people. Consequently, many more records are created by various healthcare providers when they document the care they provided to the older person. The law in most countries requires the healthcare provider to persist the records for a certain amount of time. Thus, as time progresses, it becomes more challenging to integrate at the point of care the dispersed and disparate data sets created by the various providers and relate to the same older person. In addition to the data representation disparities, most often those data sets overlap and contradict and cannot be easily used by the clinician during the relatively short time dedicated to the care encounter/service.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“eHealthTrust opened its first large-scale health record bank (HRB), a secure repository where consumers can store and control their health information, in Phoenix last month.
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PRLog
“eHealthTrust (www.eHealthTrust.com), an electronic health record bank, has opened its doors in Arizona giving residents access to its private and secure health record repository.
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Health Data Management Magazine
“The state of Washington spent $1.7 million to fund three pilot projects to prove the efficacy of health record banks. Two the projects used Microsoft’s HealthVault as their foundation; the third, operated by Spokane-based Inland Northwest Health Services, chose to go with Google Health’s online personal records storage service.
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Health Data Management Magazine
“The State of Washington has a small number of emerging health information exchanges, but the government also has invested in three pilot projects to implement health records banks.
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The Commonwealth Fund
“Health information technology (HIT)—or technology that supports storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information for communication and decision-making within and across health care organizations—is being pursued by public agencies and private health care entities across the U.S.
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Carol Selvey, Patient Privacy Matters
“Despite the financial crisis that has shaken consumer confidence in lending institutions and banks, we still all have bank accounts and depend on them to provide a repository for our hard-earned money. We trust them to keep our funds safe and handle our financial transactions, whether electronic or manual. Similar to these venerable financial institutions, health record banks are safe, secure repositories to store and transmit your health records.
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“Invoking the principle that any publicity is good publicity, it’s safe to say that EMRs finally are officially part of the broad national debate on healthcare reform, now that some of the Fox News fear mongers have jumped into the deep end of the cesspool.
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Brian Ahier - Healthcare IT
“The government is working to develop a nationwide health information network (NHIN), but it will require a system that can deliver a patient’s record completely, privately, and securely when requested.
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Doug Nadvornick, OPB News
“Who do you think owns your medical file?
Hospitals and doctors’ offices are traditionally the keepers of personal medical records in the U.S. But now there’s a movement to give people more access to their own medical information.
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Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management
“A comprehensive health reform plan from conservatives in the House and Senate would authorize health records banks that collect and maintain individuals’ medical records.
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Doug Nadvornick, KUOW News
“Who owns your medical file? Hospitals and doctors’ offices are traditionally the keepers of personal medical records in the U.S. But now there’s a movement to give people more access to their own medical information.
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Doug Dobbins, The Spokesman-Review
“Those who grew up in the pre-Internet world can remember having little access to their credit reports. Today, consumers easily can check and understand their credit scores online.
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Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management
“The Washington State Health Care Authority has launched three pilot projects to test the feasibility of health records banks.
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ICTZorg
“De Belgische privacycommissie brengt een “ongunstig” advies uit over plannen van de Vlaamse regering om een kruispuntbank van medische gegevens op te richten, het zogenaamde eHealth-platform.
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George Lauer, iHealthBeat
“Health record banking, the “power-to-the-people” version of health information exchange, grew last week with the launch of three pilot projects in the state of Washington. With a statewide bank in the formative stages in Oregon and citywide projects under way in Louisville, Kansas City and Ocala, Fla., the idea of community repositories of electronic health records appears to be gaining traction.”
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George Lauer, iHealthBeat, 26 March 2009
Barbara A. Duck, The Medical Quack
“One more entry into the field of personal health records through the Louisville Health Information Exchange. In essence from it appears this will offer consumers in the Louisville area another choice on what they can do and how they can access their health records, share, etc.
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Brian Robinson, Government Health IT
“The concept of using patient-controlled electronic health record banks as the basis for health information exchange programs got a boost March 16 with the launch of three pilot projects in Washington state.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Washington State Health Care Authority’s health record bank initiative in three communities will go live at the end of February or early March and the request for proposal for the Health Record Bank of Oregon will be released in the same timeframe.
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