Building a Patient-Driven Web-Based Healthcare Community Around an Emerging Personal Health Record Standard

Introduction

The Continuity of Care Record (CCR) is an XML-based electronic health record format that is quickly gaining acceptance in the Healthcare industry as a vehicle for exchanging clinical information among providers, institutions, or other entities. Because of the platform-agnostic property of XML, CCR is an ideal format for a patient to keep either as a brief summary of recent care or as a life-long record of medical history. Furthermore, because of XML is a well-supported format by database vendors, importing into existing EMR systems involves only simple XML transformations (XSLT) for converting CCR into native schema.


CCR Exchange Network is a web-based infrastructure that provides patients, physicians, and clinicians a secure environment to share CCRs over public network. By taking advantage of the recent advent on information and security technologies and standards, CCR Exchange...


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