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:
  Computer Security Database Management Systems Humans Internet Medical Records Systems, Computerized Patient Access To Records Software 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
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a49943ad43c2ec616a320527d04f57e2b4c4951d86589f1d775d6bf19a79df43
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/31252/cdc_31252_DS1.pdf
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