title: Connecting humans and health through health information exchange.
abstract: To address healthcare quality, efficiency and safety, a national health information technology (IT) initiative was announced by the President of the United States in 2004 to make Electronic Health Records (EHR) available to most Americans within 10 years. The National Health IT Agenda has advanced with recognition of interoperability standards for Personal Health Records (PHR) and Population Health information exchange. This session will illustrate the national processes, timeline, stakeholders and benefits of adoption of interoperability standards to enable health information exchange.
authors: HIMSS, Chicago, IL, USA. jsensmeier@himss.org
authors: Joyce
authors: J
authors: Sensmeier
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Casey Halley
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D009732:Nursing Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012449:Safety; D014481:United States