The National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE) is a not-for-profit focused on health information exchange with membership open to HIE Programs in all states and territories of the U.S. A NATE project involving multiple states, vendors, and healthcare organizations helps patients make their medical records more portable so they can better coordinate their care online with their providers.
NATE has a pilot being coordinated in part by the State Health Policy Consortium which is managed by RTI International and funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, as part of the PHR Ignite consortium project. The pilot currently underway in California, Alaska, and Oregon includes five health information organizations and three personal health record companies.
The objective is to ensure providers that they can successfully transfer medical data into a patient-controlled PHRs and that other physicians on the patient’s care team can trust the information sent to them from the patient’s PHR.
The organizations taking part in the pilot has:
- Humetrix working with San Diego Health Connect and the Department of Veterans Affairs to transmit HIE and VA medical data to its iBlueButton mobile applications
- Santa Cruz HIE working with provider organizations to deploy the “NoMoreClipboard” patient portal to exchange demographic and clinical data
- University of California San Diego and San Diego Health Connect collaborating with Microsoft HealthVault to provide asthma patients with environmental data
- Alaska eHealth Network collaborating with HealthVault and private providers to send Continuity of Care Documents to their patients and HealthVault accounts
- CareAccord in Oregon exchanging clinical health information online between chronically ill children and their pediatric patient-centered primary care home
Aaron Seib, NATE CEO said “Putting the patient in charge of their data can expedite data exchange. People have a right to their medical record and a right to disclose it to whomever they choose.”
He noted that the project is on a fast track. “In just over 30 days, we were able to bring together a broad group of stakeholders and rapidly develop a baseline approach that balances easy consumer access to data with the privacy and security safeguards necessary for trusted exchange,”
Seib added. “In the next phase, we want to engage additional PHR vendors and healthcare and health information exchange organizations to continue working on the baseline and then update the baseline with lessons learned”.
For more information email Aaron Seib at aaron.seib@nate-trust.org or call 301-540-2311.