Health Record Banking Advances

(reblogging this interesting update on health record banking, the idea of all patient data flowing to an account they, not doctors, control)

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Source: Patty Enrado, NHINWatch.com

Date: February 2, 2009

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Sometime during the next two months, through grants totaling $1.7 million, the Washington State Health Care Authority, or WSHCA (pdf), will launch three consumer-controlled health record bank pilots in the communities of Bellingham, Spokane and Cashmere.


WSHCA’s efforts are part of a movement toward implementing health record banking, or HRB, systems, said William Yasnoff, MD, PhD, managing partner of NHII Advisors and founder of the Health Record Banking Alliance.