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We are looking for volunteers to help us explore how and when an online personalized health record could be useful to patients, their families and doctors. Please sign up and share your thoughts.
Demonstration Projects
The Health Care Authority’s Consumer-Controlled Health Record Bank Pilot is underway. Find out more about the pilots—and sign up to participate!
Three pilot projects have been awarded separate grants to help test the feasibility and usefulness of online health record bank accounts. These pilot sites will see if they offer a useful way for consumers to maintain, track and use their personal health information.
The pilot sites are expected to be operational in February 2009, and they are looking for volunteers to participate now! AccessMyHealth.org is partnering with the pilots to help them get started—and make sure they address the concerns we’re hearing from Washingtonians like you.
Get Involved with the Pilots
Spokane Regional Health Record Bank
- Sponsored by: Inland Northwest Health Services
- Eligible participants: you can sign up to participate if you live in the Greater Spokane region. Find out more.
The Shared Care Plan Personal Health Record
- Sponsored by: St. Joseph Hospital Foundation and The Critical Junctures Institute, in conjunction with Microsoft HealthVault
- Eligible participants: you can sign up to participate if you live in Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan and Island Counties. Find out more.
- Enrollment activities are also taking place in King County.
Community Choice Health Record Bank
- Sponsored by: Community Choice Healthcare Network, in conjunction with Microsoft HealthVault
- Eligible participants: you can sign up to participate if you live in Chelan, Douglas, Grant and Okanogan counties. Find out more.
More About the HCA Consumer-Controlled Health Record Bank Pilot
The goal of this pilot project is to demonstrate how a consumer-controlled health record bank would work for real patients and their doctors. The vision is to create a secure place for copies of patients’ health and medical records from various health care sources to be populated and stored. Patients would then control with whom the information could be shared.
A health record bank may in time be defined as an organization similar to a traditional bank, but one that serves as a repository for storing and maintaining a patient’s lifetime health and medical records. The health record bank would store copies of records from multiple sources and ensure that the individual always has complete control over who accesses that copy of their information.
The demonstration project hopes to create a functional health record bank that will receive copies of patients’ medical information from their doctor, a hospital, or other health care entity. Through the health record bank, patients will have access to their health information in a form they can review, confirm and present to their doctors. The information will initially be available in a well organized printable format. The records will be managed by patients and organized into a format that, when brought to their doctors, will directly support the flow of information from patient to doctor to support clinical decision making.