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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.
June 1, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff presented " A Feasible Path to Sustainable Community Health Information Infrastructure" at the Northeast Florida Health Information Initiative Summit in Jacksonville, FL.
April 20, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff gave the keynote entitled “A Feasible Path to Sustainable Community Health Information Infrastructure“ at the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) meeting in Jacksonville, FL.
March 22, 2007: Need for health information infrastructure for biosurveillance highlighted. In an article entitled "Biosurveillance Evolution" in Health Data Management, the importance of a national health information infrastructure to provide the data needed by public health agencies for early detection of outbreaks and other adverse population health events is described. The article includes several quotes from an interview with Dr. William Yasnoff.
March 22, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff to keynote Health Data Management's Clinical Automation Summit to be held Sept. 17-18 in suburban Chicago.
March 7, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff discusses health record banks in an interview with Dr. Ron Pion on BigMediaUSA.com Rx Radio: Your Prescription for Health. Available for listening or download.
March 3, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff answers questions about health record banks in an interview with HIMSS Insider.
February 28, 2007: The Health Record Banking Alliance (HRBA) met in conjunction with the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference in New Orleans. If you would like to receive ongoing announcements related to future HRBA meetings and activities, go to the "Join and Log In" page, click on "Join HRBA" and follow the instructions to enter your contact information.
February 18, 2007: In a New York Times article entitled "Warnings Over Privacy of U.S. Health Network," Dr. William Yasnoff comments on the need for increased privacy protection as a prerequisite to successful health information infrastructure. The health record banking legislation from the last session of Congress is also mentioned.
February 14, 2007: William Yasnoff suggests health record
bank for Wisconsin in an
interview
with the Wisconsin Technology Network.
February 2, 2007: Consumers key to Health IT progress: Article in HIT News has information about the new version of the Independent Health Record Bank bill.
December 22, 2006: UK adopts patient consent for access to electronic
health records as a key principle. See "Sharing
e-health info requires
patient consent". This is the central principle of health record
banking.
December 19, 2006: Washington State Governor requests $9 million
for Health Information Infrastructure. Today Governor Gregoire of
Washington released her proposed budget for the 2007-09 biennium. Included
in the proposal is $9 million for health information technology, supporting
the recommendations in the report submitted on December 1st (see earlier news
item). The breakdown of the $9 million includes:
• $8 million for the design and implementation of the health information
infrastructure and the pilot health record banks, and
• $1 million for the Washington Health Information Collaborative award
program assisting providers in the adoption and use of health information
technology system.
Inclusion in the proposal doesn’t mean the budgeted amount has been
approved or funded. Further
information is available at the Governor’s Web site detailing her
budget proposals for health care. The reference to health information technology
is mentioned on page 3.
December 19, 2006: It's Round Two for e-Health records bank bills. Health record bank bills to be introduced in next Congress.
December 18, 2006: Washington State Unveils Its Health Information Infrastructure Roadmap. NHINwatch describes the recently released report from Washington State.
December 1, 2006: Washington State Report Recommends
Health Record Banks.
After a 16-month process of study and review, the Washington State Health
Information Infrastructure Advisory Board (HIIAB)
(created by the Legislature) has released its report
recommending the development of multiple Health Record Banks with some financial
assistance from the State. The report has an extensive review of the background,
current status, and available options for implementing health information
infrastructure. It concludes by recommending an incremental and achievable
path towards an effective health information infrastructure in Washington
State using Health Record Banks containing consumer-controlled copies of health
records from multiple sources. Participation in the system by consumers would
be voluntary. Dr. William Yasnoff served as the project consultant to the
HIIAB.
November 30, 2006: Louisville Moving Ahead with Health Record Bank. In Louisville, KY, a community-wide forum of key healthcare stakeholders is being convened by the Mayor on 12/5/06 to begin the process of establishing a Health Record Bank. The goal is to improve quality and safety of health care, and reduce costs by as much as $100 million annually. The Louisville Health Information Exchanges (LouHIE) hopes to enroll 300,000 to 500,000 people in the system, which will be developed in 2007 and is anticipated to be operational by 2008. Patients would both have access to their records and fully control their use.
November 18, 2006: Dr. William Yasnoff gave a plenary presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Foundation of Women Legislators in Avon, Colorado (more information).
November 9, 2006: Dr. William Yasnoff, founder and ceo of HRBA, gave a panel presentation at the Consumer-Centric Healthcare Congress in Washington, D.C.
October 8, 2006: Dr. William Yasnoff, founder and ceo of HRBA, gave a presentation on health record banking at the Cerner Healthcare Leadership Forum in Orlando (conference home page and agenda available).
September 29, 2006: Stakeholder meeting in Seattle, WA, discussing Washington State proposal for health record banking. Dr. William Yasnoff joins staff of the Washington State Health Care Authority to discuss the draft recommendations of the Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board (audio/video presentation - requires Windows Media Player). The final report of the HIIAB will be released 12/1/06. More information on the process is available.
September 21, 2006: Initial meeting of Health Record Banking Coalition reported in Healthcare IT News.
September 21, 2006: HHS Urged to consider Health Record Banking - In today's report of the appointment of a new interim National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in Healthcare IT News, Dr. William Yasnoff urges HHS to adopt health record banking model.
July 24, 2006: Response of the Health Record
Banking Alliance to HHS RFI (Request for Information) on
Voluntary Storage of Personal Information in Preparation for Emergencies
- In this response, the health record
banking approach combined with the eHealthTrust
business model is described in detail. Fourteen references are included.
HRBA Presentations
Upcoming
November 8, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff will be presenting a talk entitled “Health Record Banks: empowering Consumers to Control Their Own Information“ at the Consumer-Centric healthcare Congress in Washington DC.
Previous
September 17-18, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff gave a keynote at the Health Data Management's Clinical Automation Summit held in suburban Chicago.
July 20, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff gave a keynote presentation at the 2nd Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on The Road to Interoperability in Boston, MA. This presentation <second file attached to this email> was the subject of a subsequent news report "Privacy is key to interoperability".
June 1, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff presented " A Feasible Path to Sustainable Community Health Information Infrastructure" at the Northeast Florida Health Information Initiative Summit in Jacksonville, FL.
April 20, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff gave the keynote entitled “A Feasible Path to Sustainable Community Health Information Infastructure“ at the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) meeting in Jacksonville, FL.
March 6, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff participated in a panel entitled "Health Record Banking" at the 5th National Medical Banking Institute in Marietta, GA.
February 27, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff describes the need for health record banks to build the nation's health information infrastructure in an editorial in Healthcare IT News published during the recent HIMSS meeting in New Orleans.
February 25, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff joined Dave Witter (from Oregon) in presenting "RHIO Business Models - Innovation for Sustainability" at the HIMSS RHIO Symposium in New Orleans (just prior to the HIMSS 2007 Annual Meeting).
February 21, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff gave a presentation entitled "A Feasible Path to Sustainable Community Health Information Infrastructure" to the Health Information Exchange standing committee of the Georgia Health Information Technology and Transparency (HITT) Advisory Board (created by Executive Order of the Governor).
November 18, 2006: Dr. William Yasnoff gave a plenary presentation at the Annual Meeting of the National Foundation of Women Legislators in Avon, Colorado (more information).
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