Health insurers, HL7 team to create portable PHRs

Health Level Seven (HL7), America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association agreed last week to collaborate on portability standards for PHRs. Working together AHIP and the Blues have already created an implementation guide for health plans which includes technical standards, a data dictionary and operating rules for transferring PHR data elements between plans. Those data elements include claims encounter and administrative data drawn from health insurance plan data sources, along with information provided directly by beneficiaries. Now, AHIP and the Blues will turn over maintenance of the technical standards to HL7 and ASC X12 for long turn development and management.

To find out more about the HL7/health plan collaboration:
- read this Healthcare IT News piece

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