eHealthTrust™ - Sustainable Electronic Health Record Solutions for Communities

eHealthTrust™ provides a path toward anytime, anywhere medical care information and decision support by incorporating a central repository for patient medical information. The eHealthTrust solution is essentially a medical bank account for each patient’s electronic records, which is paid for and controlled by the patient. Doctors and hospitals can make deposits into the patient’s account, and get paid to do so, but the patient controls the withdrawals of medical record information. When a patient enrolls in eHealthTrust they make the trust the agent for their records. The eHealthTrust solution helps ensure that patients receive better, safer care at lower costs. Here is how it works: eHealthTrust Overview (503k slide show).

Additional Information About eHealthTrust: Frequently Asked Questions

Upcoming eHealthTrust Webinars and Presentations

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December 19, 2008: Business Week online op-ed on Health Record Banking. In an op-ed in Business Week online entitled "Electronic Records Are Key to Health Care Reform", William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, describes how health record banks can solve the problem of making complete patient records available at any point of care and providing EMRs to all physicians while fully protecting individual privacy. He then outlines the policies that the new Obama Administration should adopt to encourage the development of health record banks with only modest new Federal expenditures.

December 11, 2007: Dr. Yasnoff is featured in an article about health information technology in the Wall St. Journal.

November 8, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff gave a talk entitled “Health Record Banks: empowering Consumers to Control Their Own Information“ at the Consumer-Centric healthcare Congress in Washington DC.

October 26, 2007: Today a report strongly advocating health record banks entitled “Improving Health Care: Why a Dose of IT May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered” (overview) was released by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. It was presented at a National Press Club event that included remarks from Health IT Now! Co-chair, former Congresswoman Nancy Johnson. Additional information.

September 17-18, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff gave a keynote at the Health Data Management's Clinical Automation Summit held in suburban Chicago.

July 26, 2007: The Independent Health Record Trust bill (HR 2991) recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives is garnering increased bipartisan support with 49 co-sponsors so far: "New Bill Proposes 'Health Record Trusts' That Pay Doctors To Use E-Health Records". A companion Senate bill is expected soon.

July 25, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff presented "Health Record Banking: The Consumer-controlled, Market-driven Community Solution for Health IT" to the HHS Health IT Committee of the American Legislative Exchange Council in Philadelphia.

July 20, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff gave a keynote presentation at the 2nd Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on The Road to Interoperability in Boston, MA. This presentation was the subject of a subsequent news report "Privacy is key to interoperability".

July 19, 2007: Dr. William Yasnoff presented testimony to the Secondary Data Use Workgroup of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics . His presentation was entitled "Health Record Banks Enable Secondary Data Use with Privacy Protection".

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