Indivo: a personally controlled health record for health information exchange and communication

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Personally controlled health records (PCHRs), a subset of personal health records (PHRs), enable a patient to assemble, maintain and manage a secure copy of his or her medical data. Indivo (formerly PING) is an open source, open standards PCHR with an open application programming interface (API).</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We describe how the PCHR platform can provide standard building blocks for networked PHR applications. Indivo allows the ready integration of diverse sources of medical data under a patient's control through the use of standards-based communication protocols and APIs for connecting PCHRs to existing and future health information systems.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The strict and transparent personal control model is designed to encourage widespread participation by patients, healthcare providers and institutions, thus creating the ecosystem for development of innovative, consumer-focused healthcare applications.</p

The Indivo user interface showing the options presented to an individual for sharing her record information

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Indivo: a personally controlled health record for health information exchange and communication"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/7/25</p><p>BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007;7():25-25.</p><p>Published online 12 Sep 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC2048946.</p><p></p