Journal article
Immunizations: the first step in a personal health record to empower patients.
Despite the promise of better health care through information-centric patient empowerment- little progress has been made. The issue is not that the data do not exist in a useable form- nor that technologies are lacking that would enable access to this information. There are two primary challenges standing in the way of patient empowerment: (1) in the private sector there is no proven revenue model for providing this access and (2) in the public sector the standard argument is confidentiality of information. The lack of a priority by either private or public health providers to empower individuals will lead to these initiatives being consumer driven. Access to immunization records through health informatics and supporting compunetics presents an easy-win opportunity to significantly empower individuals with their own health information. Scientific Technologies Corporation (STC) has been implementing and supporting immunization registries in North America for over fifteen years. As the leading expert in this ar
Languages
- English
Publication year
2008
Journal
Studies in health technology and informatics
Volume
137
Type
Journal article
Categories
- Data
Tags
- ICT
