[medinformatics] Business and Medicine Team-up to Promote Digital Health Records

[Medical Informatics News]

In an effort to promote consumer adoption of digital health records, the Health Record
Network Foundation (HRN), a joint venture of Durham, N.C.-based Duke University’s
Fuqua School of Business and the university’s School of
Medicine, has disclosed plans to launch a pilot program with a Toronto-based health system to create a portal where
patient health information would be accessible over the Internet. According to an article in Computerworld,
under the program, patient records will be stored on HRN servers. Patient approval would be required to store the
records on the server and make them accessible to others. Reportedly, the venture is still evaluating content
management and database technology to use in the system.*

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Duke University press release on the project available
here.



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