National Experts to Meet at HIMSS to Promote Health Record Banks

At HIMSS12 later this month, the Health Record Banking Alliance will convene the inaugural meeting of its National Advisory Board, a group of nationally and internationally recognized experts in health informatics, privacy, health policy, health care, patient advocacy, health education and business. They will be discussing strategies to promote and accelerate development and adoption of HRBs - community-based personally controlled repositories of electronic health records. HRBs can provide effective and efficient health information infrastructure (HII) in communities by simultaneously addressing the interdependent requirements of privacy, stakeholder participation and financial sustainability...