Abstract
Health information infrastructure (HII) comprises community-level informatics systems to make comprehensive electronic patient records available when and where needed for the entire population. There are numerous difficult and highly interdependent challenges that HII systems must overcome, including privacy, stakeholder cooperation, assuring all-digital information, and providing financial sustainability. A feasible solution to all these problems can be effectively provided by health record banks (HRBs), community-based repositories of patient-controlled electronic medical records. The transition to value-based care reimbursement is likely to accelerate progress toward HRB solutions in the U.S., similar to those that have already been successfully implemented in other nations.
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