*** Narrated Introduction to Health Record Banks ***
Narrated slide show on Health Record Banking now
available!
April 23, 2009: The
Health Record Banking Alliance is grateful to HIMSS
for permission to reproduce and present e-Session 403, "Introduction to Health Record
Banking," from the
recently concluded 2009 Annual meeting in Chicago. The session, submitted by Drs. Jack Varga and William
Yasnoff, is a 20-minute narrated slide show describing the health record
banking concept, rationale, operation, and advantages. No special software is needed -- just CLICK HERE and the
presentation will run in your browser.
Health Record Banking Alliance (HRBA™) is a non-profit corporation formed to assist stakeholders in
the promotion of community repositories of electronic health records. Health
Record Banks improve the safety and efficiency of patient care, public health,
and medical research through the availability of secure and complete electronic
lifetime health records. For more
information, see our Fact
Sheet & Principles .
HRBA
will assist communities and other stakeholders plan, organize, fund, develop
and operate secure repositories of electronic lifetime health records. What is Health Record Banking?
Upcoming HRBA Presentations
[Watch this space for announcements]
May 7, 2010: The Health Record Banking Alliance submitted comments
to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in response to the proposed
"e-Prescribing" regulation.
The HRBA response urges DEA to coordinate its provider authentication
requirements with other Federal agencies and private entities so that providers
can use a single set of credentials for a wide variety of online information
systems and transaction types.
March 15, 2010: The Health Record Banking Alliance submitted comments
to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to the
proposed "Meaningful Use" regulation. The HRBA response emphasizes
the central importance of consumers (or whomever they designate as their proxy)
being able to send their electronic medical information in standardized form to
a recipient of their choice, such as a health record bank, as soon as it is
generated.
February 5, 2010: Jim Hansen, CEO of CareEntrust,
gave a presentation
entitled, "Developing and Executing a Business Plan for Achieving
Sustainability for Health Information Exchange" at the National Health
Information Exchange Summit in Washington, DC. He discussed how the health record
banking approach can be a key element in achieving financial sustainability.
October 29, 2009: Dr. William Yasnoff, President of HRBA, gave a presentation
at the Southern California Health Care Summit in Ontario, CA.
October 14, 2009: The Health Record Banking Alliance has submitted comments
to the HHS Office of the National Coordinator in response to their
"Consumer Preferences Requirements Document." The HRBA response emphasizes the
central importance of consumers' control of their own health information, and
the ability of health record bank architecture to easily and conveniently
implement consumer choices.
October 1, 2009: Perspective: Health Record Banking in an ARRA World. Patty Enrado, editor of the Health
IT news portal nhinwatch.com, reports on
the ongoing development and implementation of health record banks (HRBs) that
is continuing after the passage of the HITECH/ARRA legislation, and how HRBs
can be the foundation of health information exchange in communities in support
of meaningful use of electronic health records, allowing physicians to qualify
for stimulus funds. Dr. William
Yasnoff, President of HRBA, is quoted extensively.
September 15, 2009: HIMSS/AMDIS podcast on
Health Record Banking. Jack Varga, MD, Treasurer of HRBA,
gave a podcast
interview on health record banking.
August 28, 2009: HRBA sends letters to
State Banking Regulators. Today, in a letter
to the banking commissioner in all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico, the Health
Record Banking Alliance offered to provide advice and assistance in
establishing regulations for health record banks that ensure consumer
protection. Each letter included a
copy of the HRBA
Principles & Fact Sheet, which
details the guidelines that HRBA members have agreed to utilize in the
operation of health record banks.
August 7, 2009: The cover story of Federal Computer Week, "Is
the Nation's Health Network Healthy?", has several quotes from Dr.
William Yasnoff, President of HRBA, explaining the advantages of health record
banks and expressing concern about the feasibility of the "network of
networks" approach of the NHIN (Nationwide Health Information Network) as
currently being pursued by the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for
Health IT.
August 3, 2009: In an interview
on Federal News Radio, Neville Pattinson, VP of Government Affairs and
Business Development, Gemalto North America (an organizational member of HRBA),
discussed the need for and importance of smart card authentication, including
in the context of accessing and protecting the privacy of health information in
patient-controlled health record banks.
July 10, 2009: Dr. William Yasnoff gave a presentation entitled "How to
Develop a Sustainable Community Health Information Infrastructure" at
the Health IT
Workshop given by the Institute for Family Health (sponsored by the Health
Resources and Services Administration) in New York City.
June 17, 2009: "Health care records should be user-friendly,
patients say", a Federal Computer Week article, describes how
patient advocates are encouraging the Obama administration to tailor the
regulations relating to the upcoming $18 billion in subsidies for health IT to
give patients more power to access and control their own electronic health
records by including patient-centric principles in the definition of
"meaningful use." It
specifically references the Health Record Banking Alliance.
May 19, 2009: (Spokane, WA) “Push
for More Patient Control of Health Records”, a news story on NPR Station
KPLU, describes the development of health record banks in Washington State and
Oregon.
May 6, 2009: (Washington, DC) HRBA member Patient Command asked HHS Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius to initiate a rulemaking under the HITECH Act (part of the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) to define interoperability criteria for
the Qualified Electronic Health Record. In their letter,
also sent to David Blumenthal, MD, HHS National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology, Patient Command proposed interoperability standards for
the Qualified EHRs using existing technology, with the aim of initially
defining a Qualified EHR as having the capability to input and output medical
record narrative under an XML schema maintained by NIST and based on the
Continuity of Care Document (CCD).
April 7, 2009: Dr. Thomas Jones and Mr. Richard Marks gave a presentation
entitled "Legal and
Clinical Regulation of PHRs: The Current Framework" at the HIMSS Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL
(Event #152, 1:00 pm, Convention Center W 190 b). Download
presentation slides (ppt)
April 6, 2009: Drs. Deborah Peel and William Yasnoff gave a presentation
entitled "Patient-Controlled
Health Record Banks: An Answer to the HIT Privacy Problem?" at the HIMSS Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL
(Event #52, 9:45 am, Convention Center S 406 b). Download slide
presentation by Dr. Peel (ppt) Download
slide presentation by Dr. Yasnoff (ppt)
April 6-9, 2009: Drs. Jack Varga and William Yasnoff presented an E-Session
entitled "Introduction to
Health Record Banking" at the
HIMSS Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL (Event #152, 1:00 pm, Convention Center W
190 b). View HIMSS e-Session
on Health Record Banking [We are very grateful to HIMSS for permission to
reproduce this e-Session here!]
March 30, 2009: Dr. William Yasnoff presented "Health IT Opportunities
and Challenges" at 3:45 pm to the National Council on Disability meeting
in Washington, DC.
March 25, 2009: (Salt Lake
City, UT) The Louisville Health
Information Exchange (LouHIE) has selected 3M Health Information Systems to provide the
electronic health record banking
system for the greater Louisville area. 3M and its
partner, InterComponentWare, Inc. (ICW), will design, build, and pilot an
integrated health information network that will offer free health record
banking services to all 1.2 million citizens in the greater Louisville
community.
March 18, 2009: (Wenatchee, WA) Local
pilot project allows patients to see, update their own medical records online. The local newspaper reports on the
community health record bank that just began operations.
March 16, 2009: The
State of Washington announced
that three Health Record Bank pilots are now operational. The pilots, in Bellingham, Cashmere,
and Spokane, were funded in 2008 through the Health Care Authority in
collaboration with the Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board
(HIIAB). They represent the first
consumer-controlled, community-based electronic health record repositories in
the nation. Health Record Banks
provide consumers with the opportunity to access and fully control copies of
their health records held securely on their behalf. See also Health
Record Banks Gaining Traction in Regional Projects, State
Starts Health Records Bank Pilots, Washington
state launches pilot projects for health record bank, and Washington
State Launches Pilots To Test Health Record Banks.February 23,
2009: Dr. William Yasnoff
gave a presentation
at the closing keynote panel, "Privacy
in a Networked Era – Preparing for the Future of Health Care Delivery"
at the World
Healthcare Congress 2nd Annual Leadership Summit on Consumer Connectivity
in Carlsbad, CA.
February 17, 2009: Perspective:
Taking a closer look at health record banks in Washington State and Oregon. Patty Enrado, editor of the Health
IT news portal nhinwatch.com, reports on
the ongoing health record bank implementation efforts in Washington State and
Oregon.
February 12, 2009: Dr. William Yasnoff gave a presentation
on the panel "The Impact of
Data and Information on Health Care Delivery — Understanding Technology and
Legal Constraints to Success" at the Healthcare in 2009
meeting sponsored by Baker & McKenzie and Bank Street Group in New York,
NY.
February 2, 2009: Perspective:
Health Record Banking Gaining Traction. Patty Enrado, editor of the Health IT news portal nhinwatch.com, reports on the rapidly
growing interest in health record banking, including the ongoing development in
health record banks in communities across the country.
February 1, 2009: The Health Record Banking Alliance released its White
Paper on Health Record Banking.
January 19, 2009: In a podcast
interview for IT Compliance Advisor,
William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, talks about privacy issues related to health IT
and how health record banks can address them.
January 15, 2009: The Health
Record Banking Alliance today joined a broad coalition of organizations
including the Progressive Policy Institute,
American College of Cardiology, Cerner Corporation, Patient Command, National Alliance for Hispanic Health,
and the Self-Insurance
Institute of America to endorse a pragmatic set of recommendations
for requirements and priorities attached to health IT expenditures in the
Economic Stimulus bill now being considered by Congress. We recommend that all EHRs be required,
at the request of the patient, to produce human-readable text output of that
patient's record in XML format either 1) as recommended by the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST), or 2) using an XML format with a schema
that the EHR vendor has filed with NIST.
Further, this copy should be available within 24 hours of the request at
no charge to the patient.
For
funding directed to health information exchanges, we recommend that priority be
given to those projects that pursue and achieve the goals of: 1) making
information available 24/7 in XML format from every health care source serving
the population of the HIE; 2) including full audit trails in the information
available (to facilitate privacy protection); 3) fully and accurately
authenticating the identify of all users; 4) serving safety net providers, the
underserved, and the disabled; and 5) achieving a sustainable business model.
We
believe that adoption of these recommendations
will help ensure that health IT funds are productively used to implement
systems that will enable third party organizations to act on behalf of patients
to assemble a comprehensive copy of their records, while ensuring that patients
have control over who has access to which portions of that copy. We urge Congress to incorporate them in
the Economic Stimulus bill.
December 19, 2008: Business Week online op-ed on Health Record Banking. In an op-ed in Business Week online entitled "Electronic
Records Are Key to Health-Care Reform", William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, describes how health record banks can solve the
problem of making complete patient records available at any point of care and
providing EMRs to all physicians while fully protecting individual privacy.
He then outlines the policies that the new Obama Administration
should adopt to encourage the development of health record banks with only
modest new Federal expenditures.
December 18, 2008: HIMSS publishes new book on PHRs featuring the health
record bank model. The book, "Personal
Health Records: The Essential Missing Element in 21st Century Healthcare,"
is co-authored by Holly Miller, MD, MBA, William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD (Founder
and President of HRBA), and Howard Burde, Esq. It provides a comprehensive overview and discussion of the
many issues pertaining to the adoption and use of personal health records, with
chapters on PHR architecture (including the health record bank model), PHR law,
and PHR business sustainability models.
December 6, 2008: President-Elect Obama announces his commitment to universal
electronic medical records: "We will make sure that every doctor’s office
and hospital in this country is using cutting edge technology and electronic
medical records so that we can cut red tape, prevent medical mistakes, and help
save billions of dollars each year." President-Elect's
Weekly Address
December 5, 2008: Drs. Katherine Ball and William Yasnoff gave a presentation
entitled "Averting the Collision: Privacy Doctrine & Health
Information Exchange" at the eHealth Initiative Annual Meeting in
Washington, DC. Meeting
Agenda.
December 1, 2008: "Wal-Mart Launches E-Health Program", Business
Week 8 Dec 2008. Describes
Wal-Mart's push to get its employees to sign up for Dossia, the health record
bank it sponsors in cooperation with Intel, BP, and other large corporations.
November 20, 2008: Government Health IT Editorial, "Reinstate
e-health privacy", by Dr. William Yasnoff explains why the HIPAA
Privacy Rule does not really assure privacy.
August 24, 2008: Washington State announces
three health record bank pilots.
July 10, 2008: In a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine (extract --
subscription required for complete text), the weakening of privacy that would
result from extending HIPAA to personal health records (PHRs) or health record
banks is explained. More information.
June 9, 2008: "Medical
Records You Can Bank On" in For the Record magazine.
June, 2008: "Banking
on Patient Control" in Healthcare Informatics magazine.
May 27, 2008: Journal of AHIMA article, "Who
Pays for Health Record Banks?"
May, 2008: Journal of AHIMA cover story, "Taking
Medical Records to the Bank"
December 11, 2007: The
Health Record Banking Alliance is featured in this article
about Dr. Yasnoff in the Wall St. Journal.
November 8, 2007: Dr.
William Yasnoff gave a talk entitled “Health
Record Banks: empowering Consumers to Control Their Own Information“ at the
Consumer-Centric healthcare Congress in Washington DC.
October 26, 2007: Today
a report strongly
advocating health record banks entitled “Improving Health Care: Why a
Dose of IT May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered” (overview) was released by the
Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. It was presented at a
National Press Club event that included remarks from Health IT Now! Co-chair, former
Congresswoman Nancy Johnson. Additional
information.
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