title: Integration of the personally controlled electronic medical record into regional inter-regional data exchanges: a national demonstration.
abstract: We present the approach taken in a Massachusetts-based national demonstration project to integrate the PING personally controlled health record (PCHR) with the MA-SHARE network, the state-wide inter-organizational data exchange. We describe how we have created a patient-controlled gateway to the network, and how PCHRs have become a first class data source in the network.
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital Information Program at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: William W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Simons
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Halamka
authors.forename: Isaac S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Kohane
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nigrin
authors.forename: Nathan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Finstein
authors.forename: Kenneth D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Mandl
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012041:Regional Medical Programs; D018511:Systems Integration