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Health Insurers Create Personal Health Records
Grant Gross, InfoWorld

Two large health insurance trade groups based in the U.S. have released
a model for personal health records, a portable, Web-based tool that
includes a customer's insurance claims, immunization records,
medication
records and other health information. America's Health Insurance Plans
(AHIP) and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, whose members
provide health insurance to about two thirds of U.S. residents,
unveiled
the personal health record model Wednesday. The two groups saw the
importance of working together on the project, said Susan Pisano, vice
president of communications for AHIP. "This is really an effort that
cries out for collaboration," she said. U.S. President George Bush has
pushed for electronic health records to be available to all U.S.
residents by 2014. Backers of such records say they will improve the
efficiency of the U.S. health-care system and cut down on errors such
as drug interaction problems. PHRs are similar to other electronic
health
records, although they include less specific treatment information.
Electronic health records typically are used by health-care providers
to
store and manage detailed clinical information. Patients will be able
to enter information into their PHRs, in addition to information from
pharmacies, laboratories and medical providers, the groups said. The
model released Wednesday includes definitions of data elements that
should be included in PHRs, such as risk factors, family history,
health-care facilities and medications taken. The model also includes
standards for the PHRs to be portable between insurers and providers,
and rules about when insurers can share the information.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/13/HNhealthinsurers_1.html
See also the announcement:
http://xml.coverpages.org/AHIP-BCBSA-PHR.html

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