Interoperability with Health Information Exchange
Jesús Hernández, Executive Director, Community Choice PHCO
Ravi Mallikarjuniah, Delivery Manager, iLink Systems
Community Choice PHCO is a healthcare network that operates in four rural counties (Okanogan, Chelan, Douglas, Grant) in central Washington. They have implemented an interoperability infrastructure that communicates with Microsoft HealthVault and the Washington Health Record Bank.
A Health Record Bank is a community repository of patient health records. The health record banking movement is being driven by the Health Record Banking Alliance, and appears to provide functionality that is similar to the commercial PHR initiatives (HealthVault, Google Health), and regional health information networks (e.g. UHIN in Utah, THIN in Texas), as well as the national health information network (NHIN—see NHINWatch, a Healthcare IT News site that tracks progress of the creation of a NHIN).
I’m not sure exactly how these various healthcare repositories are ultimately going to work together, or where there is duplication of effort.
More information:
- Wellsphere Blog
- Puget Sound Business Journal: “Washington state helps patients and clinics to ‘bank’ health records”
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