See the full article at: http://www.nhinwatch.com/perspective/national-experts-meet-himss-promote-health-record-banks

Experts are planning to meet at HIMSS to discuss “strategies to promote and accelerate development and adoption of HRBs – community-based personally controlled repositories of electronic health records.”

Some key points:

• -”HRBs can provide effective and efficient health information infrastructure (HII) in communities by simultaneously addressing the interdependent requirements of privacy, stakeholder participation and financial sustainability.”

• -”HRB allows patients to readily and conveniently manage their access permissions in one place. In addition to being an effective approach to privacy, patient control also ensures that stakeholders make information available.”

The article goes on to list the cost and efficiency revenue advantages of HRBs as well as the privacy implications.