Indivo: a personally controlled health record for health information exchange and communication

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• Alternative Title:
  BMC Med Inform Decis Mak
• Personal Author:
  Mandl, Kenneth D. ; Simons, William W. ; Crawford, William C. R. ; Abbett, Jonathan M.
• Description:
  Background ; Personally controlled health records (PCHRs), a subset of personal health records (PHRs), enable a patient to assemble, maintain and manage a secure copy of his or her medical data. Indivo (formerly PING) is an open source, open standards PCHR with an open application programming interface (API). ; Results ; We describe how the PCHR platform can provide standard building blocks for networked PHR applications. Indivo allows the ready integration of diverse sources of medical data under a patient's control through the use of standards-based communication protocols and APIs for connecting PCHRs to existing and future health information systems. ; Conclusion ; The strict and transparent personal control model is designed to encourage widespread participation by patients, healthcare providers and institutions, thus creating the ecosystem for development of innovative, consumer-focused healthcare applications.
• Subjects:
  • Software
  • Computer Security
  • Database Management Systems
  • Humans
  • Internet
  • Medical Records Systems, Computerized
  • Patient Access to Records
  • User-Computer Interface
• Source:
  BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2007; 7:25.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  1 R01 CDC 000065-01/PHS HHS/United States ; N01-LM-3-3515/LM/NLM NIH HHS/United States ; P01 CD000260-01/CD/ODCDC CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/31252/cdc_31252_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 479.65 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a49943ad43c2ec616a320527d04f57e2b4c4951d86589f1d775d6bf19a79df43