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Patient Identity Management the IHE way

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Most important, this is not an interoperability problem Nationwide Patient Identity Management, especially in a federation like the USA, is a balance between quality, privacy, and safety. Where health data are involved, mistakes in identity can be a permanent privacy violation. MHDS Background 50.7.4 MHDS Background 50.7.4

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

However, distinguishing between the two forms of health IT tools can often be difficult, due to nebulous definitions and overlapping features. Patient portals give users an online view of their health data, as do PHRs. The patient accesses the information through a secure portal,” ONC says.

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Multiple formats of the same Document content

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Given a Health Information Exchange, or Nationwide Health Information Exchange, there will be a variety of capabilities and use-cases for the hundreds-thousands of various Document Consumers. A Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD) CDA document vs a CCDA CCD. are laying around. Why publish multiple formats?

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time. But how easy will it actually be?