4 January 2021: HRBA submits comments to CMS on their proposed rule to Reduce Provider and Patient Burden and Promote Patients’ Electronic Access to Health Information.
24 January 2020: HRBA submits a letter to OMB concerning the Proposed Rule of the 21st Century Cures Act.
17 June 2019: HRBA Comments on ONC TEFCA2, submitted to ONC.
3 June 2019: HRBA Comments on ONC Proposed Rule on 21st Century Cures Act, submitted to ONC.
12 December 2018: CMS Responds to HRBA Letter to Seema Verma.
11 October 2018: HRBA writes letter to CMS Administrator, Seema Verma, touting the benefits of lifetime, longitudinal, digital patient records.
4 September 2018: HRBA Comments on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) CY19 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Revisions, submitted to CMS.
24 June 2018: HRBA submits comments to CMS on the proposed revisions to the FY19 Inpatient Prospective Payment System, and calls for CMS and ONC to require provider organizations to release all of a patient's data upon their request.
11 June 2018: HRBA President, Richard Gibson, does a podcast with Ray Dogum of Health Unchained.
1 June 2018: HRBA’s founder and current President, William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, becomes Chair of the Advisory Board. Founding Advisory Board Chair, Edward H. (Ted) Shortliffe, MD, PhD, remains on the Advisory Board. HRBA’s current Executive Director, Richard Gibson, MD, PhD, becomes President.
9 May 2018: HRBA becomes a member of the CARIN Alliance. HRBA has signed onto the CARIN Alliance's Consumer-Directed Exchange Pledge.
24 April 2018: Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) releases Draft Recommendations on US Core Data for Interoperability.
24 February 2018: HRBA issues press release on its Comments to ONC on ONC's Draft TEFCA.
20 February 2018: HRBA submits comments to ONC during the public comment period ending 20 February 2018 on ONC's Draft TEFCA (Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement).
27 November 2017: HRBA submits further comments to ONC on ONC's Request for Information Regarding Implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement following a conference call had with ONC on 24 October 2017.
24 August 2017: HRBA submits comments to ONC during the public comment period ending 24 August 2017 in response to ONC's Request for Information Regarding Implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.
14 July 2017: ONC publishes a qualitative study done by a private firm under contract with the ONC to study the experience of 17 consumers requesting their records and 50 health systems responding to such record requests.
13 July 2017: Dr. Yasnoff gives presentation on health information infrastructure and health record banking at the Summer Institute on Nursing Informatics at the University of Maryland.
7 July 2017: Health and Human Service Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has released a continuing medical education video and slide deck to inform providers about patients' right of access to their healthcare records under the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
27 June 2017: Dr. Yasnoff meets with John Fleming, MD, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Technology Reform, at ONC offices to discuss health record banks and modern personal health records.
8 June 2017: Richard Gibson meets with Drs. Don Rucker and John Fleming and Principal Deputy National Coordinator Genevieve Morris at ONC offices to outline the benefits of modern personal health records and health record banks to support the 21st Century Cures Act.
4 May 2017: Dr. Yasnoff presents on health record banking at AMIA iHealth Conference in Philadelphia.
23 March 2017: HRBA Joins National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE), a not-for-profit membership association focused on enabling trusted exchange among organizations and individuals with differing regulatory environments and exchange preferences. NATE will extend the utility of its trust community beyond Direct secure messaging to include other consumer-centric technologies, such as those that leverage APIs or other modes of exchange.
22 March 2017: HRBA Joins DirectTrust.org, a collaborative non-profit association of 142 health IT and health care provider organizations to support secure, interoperable health information exchange via the Direct message protocols. This trust framework supports both provider-to-provider Direct exchange and bi-directional exchange between consumers/patients and their providers.
8 March 2017: HRBA joins the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. The Patient Safety Movement believes that ZERO preventable deaths by 2020 is not just a worthy goal. With the right people, ideas, and technology, it’s an attainable goal. Many of the pieces of this puzzle already exist. Solving this problem is a matter of connecting the dots of patient safety. View our Commitment Letter.
30 November 2016: HRBA Announces New Executive Director. Health Record Banking Alliance Announces Appointment of Dr. Richard Gibson as Executive Director (view press release)
28 June 2016: Dr. David Blumenthal, former ONC Director and now President of the Commonwealth Fund, has endorsed health record banks (although not by name) in a Wall Street Journal blog. He says that patients should "take charge" of their records and "retain third parties that, for a fee, would steward and distribute health-care data as directed."
2 June 2016: HRBA filed a response to the ONC RFI on Measurement of Interoperability, recommending the use of the Round Trip Interoperability Exchange Assessment, which is described in the document. This straightforward approach involves sending medical information from one system to another and back, then checking to be sure that what is received is identical to what was sent.qu
24 January 2020: HRBA submits a letter to OMB concerning the Proposed Rule of the 21st Century Cures Act.
17 June 2019: HRBA Comments on ONC TEFCA2, submitted to ONC.
3 June 2019: HRBA Comments on ONC Proposed Rule on 21st Century Cures Act, submitted to ONC.
12 December 2018: CMS Responds to HRBA Letter to Seema Verma.
11 October 2018: HRBA writes letter to CMS Administrator, Seema Verma, touting the benefits of lifetime, longitudinal, digital patient records.
4 September 2018: HRBA Comments on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) CY19 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Revisions, submitted to CMS.
24 June 2018: HRBA submits comments to CMS on the proposed revisions to the FY19 Inpatient Prospective Payment System, and calls for CMS and ONC to require provider organizations to release all of a patient's data upon their request.
11 June 2018: HRBA President, Richard Gibson, does a podcast with Ray Dogum of Health Unchained.
1 June 2018: HRBA’s founder and current President, William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, becomes Chair of the Advisory Board. Founding Advisory Board Chair, Edward H. (Ted) Shortliffe, MD, PhD, remains on the Advisory Board. HRBA’s current Executive Director, Richard Gibson, MD, PhD, becomes President.
9 May 2018: HRBA becomes a member of the CARIN Alliance. HRBA has signed onto the CARIN Alliance's Consumer-Directed Exchange Pledge.
24 April 2018: Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) releases Draft Recommendations on US Core Data for Interoperability.
24 February 2018: HRBA issues press release on its Comments to ONC on ONC's Draft TEFCA.
20 February 2018: HRBA submits comments to ONC during the public comment period ending 20 February 2018 on ONC's Draft TEFCA (Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement).
27 November 2017: HRBA submits further comments to ONC on ONC's Request for Information Regarding Implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement following a conference call had with ONC on 24 October 2017.
24 August 2017: HRBA submits comments to ONC during the public comment period ending 24 August 2017 in response to ONC's Request for Information Regarding Implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.
14 July 2017: ONC publishes a qualitative study done by a private firm under contract with the ONC to study the experience of 17 consumers requesting their records and 50 health systems responding to such record requests.
13 July 2017: Dr. Yasnoff gives presentation on health information infrastructure and health record banking at the Summer Institute on Nursing Informatics at the University of Maryland.
7 July 2017: Health and Human Service Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has released a continuing medical education video and slide deck to inform providers about patients' right of access to their healthcare records under the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
27 June 2017: Dr. Yasnoff meets with John Fleming, MD, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Technology Reform, at ONC offices to discuss health record banks and modern personal health records.
8 June 2017: Richard Gibson meets with Drs. Don Rucker and John Fleming and Principal Deputy National Coordinator Genevieve Morris at ONC offices to outline the benefits of modern personal health records and health record banks to support the 21st Century Cures Act.
4 May 2017: Dr. Yasnoff presents on health record banking at AMIA iHealth Conference in Philadelphia.
23 March 2017: HRBA Joins National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE), a not-for-profit membership association focused on enabling trusted exchange among organizations and individuals with differing regulatory environments and exchange preferences. NATE will extend the utility of its trust community beyond Direct secure messaging to include other consumer-centric technologies, such as those that leverage APIs or other modes of exchange.
22 March 2017: HRBA Joins DirectTrust.org, a collaborative non-profit association of 142 health IT and health care provider organizations to support secure, interoperable health information exchange via the Direct message protocols. This trust framework supports both provider-to-provider Direct exchange and bi-directional exchange between consumers/patients and their providers.
8 March 2017: HRBA joins the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. The Patient Safety Movement believes that ZERO preventable deaths by 2020 is not just a worthy goal. With the right people, ideas, and technology, it’s an attainable goal. Many of the pieces of this puzzle already exist. Solving this problem is a matter of connecting the dots of patient safety. View our Commitment Letter.
30 November 2016: HRBA Announces New Executive Director. Health Record Banking Alliance Announces Appointment of Dr. Richard Gibson as Executive Director (view press release)
28 June 2016: Dr. David Blumenthal, former ONC Director and now President of the Commonwealth Fund, has endorsed health record banks (although not by name) in a Wall Street Journal blog. He says that patients should "take charge" of their records and "retain third parties that, for a fee, would steward and distribute health-care data as directed."
2 June 2016: HRBA filed a response to the ONC RFI on Measurement of Interoperability, recommending the use of the Round Trip Interoperability Exchange Assessment, which is described in the document. This straightforward approach involves sending medical information from one system to another and back, then checking to be sure that what is received is identical to what was sent.qu