The HealthNex blog, subtitled “IBMers and Friends on Networked, Patient-Centric Healthcare†has a post on independent health record banks. Just like financial institutions (which are really only dealing with data, after all, too) these proposed EHR banks would allow people to deposit their medical records in the bank, and only authorized parties would have access to withdraw that information.
It’s an intriguing idea to lots of others too. On June 6, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan. introduced the Independent Health Record Bank Act of 2006 in the Senate. A companion bill was introduced in the House two days later by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). And in Rhode Island, the legislature approved borrowing $20 million to finance the creation of a statewide repository of e-health records, according to Gov. Donald Carcieri.
Even thought an EHR bank sounds like a novel idea, it turns out the idea was first proposed in 1997, according to the Yasnoff on eHealth blog.
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