Recent News: Personal Health Record to travel to new Health Care Plan by March, 2007

America’s Health Insurance Plan and Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association announced an insurer’s initiative to create an online personal health records (PHR) for 100 million patients by March, 2007. The insurers already have PHR’s for approximate 70 million patients but the problem is that the record does not travel with the patient if they change their insurance. BCBSA and AHIP have been piloting standards that will allow information such as patient history, medications, immunizations and allergies to be transferred to the new health plan if authorized by the patient.

More info: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2074657,00.asp