Detmer DE. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(4)
In the current issue of JAMIA, Friedman and Parrish have crafted an insightful and provocative call for the Population Health Record writ large. This paper contributes in an important way to the literature and appears at a propitious time in our nation’s health policy history. Furthermore, it is appropriate for JAMIA in that the AMIA Board first called for such a development in 1997.
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23 July 2010 | No Comments »
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Friedman DJ, Parrish RG. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(4)
In 1997, the American Medical Informatics Association proposed a US information strategy that included a population health record (PopHR). Despite subsequent progress on the conceptualization, development, and implementation of electronic health records and personal health records, minimal progress has occurred on the PopHR. Adapting International Organization for Standarization electronic health records standards, we define the PopHR as a repository of statistics, measures, and indicators regarding the state of and influences on the health of a defined population, in computer processable form, stored and transmitted securely, and accessible by multiple authorized users.
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Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Implementation, Population health record
