About Us

The Health Record Banking Alliance was founded by Dr. William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, FACMI, a well-known national leader in health informatics. Previously, as Senior Advisor, National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII), Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Yasnoff initiated and organized the activities leading to the President's $50 million FY05 budget request and creation of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, establishing the NHII as a widely recognized national goal.

Dr. William Yasnoff is also the developer of eHealthTrust, the innovative business model for communities building health record banks. Learn more...

HRBA Goals
— Promote community repositories as an effective and sustainable solution for electronic health information
— Provide assistance to communities building health record banks
— Promote necessary legislation & regulation consistent with community health record banks

HRBA Objectives
— Ensure effective participation of all stakeholders (e.g. consumers, physicians, hospitals, health plans, payers, purchasers, pharmaceutical & device manufacturers, health information technology vendors, and consultants)
— Educate key stakeholder decision-makers
— Increase public awareness
— Monitor proposed legislation and regulations and advocate for Association positions and policies
— Provide membership services to communities:
      Sharing lessons learned & best practices
      Identify funding strategies and sources
      Consulting
      License eHealthTrust patent and other intellectual property
      Inter-community routing of records
      Multi-community aggregated search and reporting services
      Messaging systems

Categories of HRBA Membership
— Health Record Banking Communities
— Non-profit Organizations
— For-profit Companies

For additional information on the Health Record Banking Alliance, please email us.

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