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. 2005 Jan-Feb;12(1):47-54.
doi: 10.1197/jamia.M1592. Epub 2004 Oct 18.

The PING personally controlled electronic medical record system: technical architecture

William W Simons  1 , Kenneth D Mandl, Isaac S Kohane
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The PING personally controlled electronic medical record system: technical architecture

William W Simons et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005 Jan-Feb.

Abstract

Despite progress in creating standardized clinical data models and interapplication protocols, the goal of creating a lifelong health care record remains mired in the pragmatics of interinstitutional competition, concerns about privacy and unnecessary disclosure, and the lack of a nationwide system for authenticating and authorizing access to medical information. The authors describe the architecture of a personally controlled health care record system, PING, that is not institutionally bound, is a free and open source, and meets the policy requirements that the authors have previously identified for health care delivery and population-wide research.

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