Coalition Says Consumer Role is Key to HIT & Health Reform

The future of health care should encourage expanded use of information tools to help consumers better manage their health, 56 diverse organizations said Thursday as they embraced a framework for personal health information access and privacy. The framework — developed by the Markle-operated Connecting for Health public-private collaborative — includes four overviews and fourteen specific technology and policy approaches for consumers to access health services, to obtain and control copies of health information about them, to authorize the sharing of their information with others, and sound privacy and security practices.