From the office of the national coordinator: The strategy for advancing the exchange of health information

Health Affairs

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 527-536

  Williams, Claudia ^a   Mostashari, Farzad ^b   Mertz, Kory ^c   Hogin, Emily ^d   Atwal, Parmeeth ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^b Department of Health and Human Services ^*  (United States)

^c ONC's State Health Information Exchange Program   (United States)

^d ONC's Office of Economic Analysis Evaluations and Modeling   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT CARE; STANDARD; TRUST;

AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858605747     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.1314     Document Type: Article

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13. To access the Appendix, click on the Appendix link in the box to the right of the article online
14. The Direct protocol provides a simple, secure, standards-based way for providers and other participants to send encrypted health information directly to trusted recipients over the Internet-a kind of health e-mail message. It was developed by the Direct Project, a group of public and private stakeholders convened by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Direct Project [home page on the Internet]. Washington (DC): Direct Project; [cited 2012 Feb 23]. Available from: http://directproject.org
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18. Requirements include consensus on a wide range of policy issues-such as who can access health information for what purposes-and the codification of this consensus in data use agreements and technical infrastructure. Required infrastructure and policies include data repositories that can be queried, policies and technology to implement meaningful patient choice in data sharing, indexes of patients and patient record locations, matching protocols so that providers can locate information on a particular patient, and provider directories.
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