title: The PING personally controlled electronic medical record system: technical architecture.
abstract: Despite progress in creating standardized clinical data models and interapplication protocols, the goal of creating a lifelong health care record remains mired in the pragmatics of interinstitutional competition, concerns about privacy and unnecessary disclosure, and the lack of a nationwide system for authenticating and authorizing access to medical information. The authors describe the architecture of a personally controlled health care record system, PING, that is not institutionally bound, is a free and open source, and meets the policy requirements that the authors have previously identified for health care delivery and population-wide research.
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Enders 1, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. william.simons@childrens.harvard.edu
authors.forename: William W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Simons
authors.forename: Kenneth D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Mandl
authors.forename: Isaac S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Kohane
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D003199:Computer Systems; D003219:Confidentiality; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012984:Software