Title | Indivo: a personally controlled health record for health information exchange and communication. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2007 |
Authors | Mandl, KD, Simons, WW, Crawford, WCR, Abbett, JM |
Journal | BMC medical informatics and decision making |
Volume | 7 |
Pagination | 25 |
Date Published | 2007 |
Abstract | 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. |
URL | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/7/25/ |
Alternate Journal | BMC Med Inform Decis Mak |
PubMed ID | 17850667 |
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