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- Title
New standards and enhanced utility for family health history information in the electronic health record: an update from the American Health Information Community's Family Health History Multi-Stakeholder Workgroup.
- Authors
Feero, W Gregory; Bigley, Mary Beth; Brinner, Kristin M; Family Health History Multi-Stakeholder Workgroup of the American Health Information Community
- Abstract
Family health history is a complex, multifaceted tool for assessing disease risk that can offer insight into the interplay between inherited and social factors relevant to patient care. Family health history tools in electronic health records can enable the user to collect, represent, and interpret structured data that properly supports clinical decisions. If these data can be made interoperable, important health information can be shared with minimal duplication of effort among entities involved in the continuum of patient care. This paper reviews the efforts by the American Health Information Community's Family Health History Multi-Stakeholder Workgroup to create a core data set for family health history information and to determine requirements to promote incorporation of such information in electronic health records. The Workgroup is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Personalized Health Care Initiative.
- Publication
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2008, Vol 15, Issue 6, p723
- ISSN
1067-5027
- DOI
10.1197/jamia.M2793