Steering Committee on eHealth Record Sharing

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        Steering Committee

The Steering Committee on eHealth Record (eHR) Sharing (the Steering Committee) charied by the Permanent Secretary for Food and Health (Health) and comprising members from the health care professions in both the public and private sectors.  The main purpose of the Steering Committee is to provide steer, build consensus and gather expertise for the development of a territory-wide eHR infrastructure for the sharing of health records of individuals within the health care system subject to conditions including the subjects' consent.

 

To provide guidance for the long-term overall development of the initiative and a common reference point for all parties concerned in implementing the eHR infrasturcture in both the public and private sectors, the Steering Committee has endorsed the following guiding principles:

  1. Compelling But Not Compulsory Record Sharing
  2. Community Corporation Institutional Structure
  3. Self-Sustaining Business Operation Model
  4. Privacy and Security of Paramount Importance
  5. Open Technical Standards
  6. Building Block Approach

The Steering Committee has also identified a number of fundamental issues relating to the development of an eHR sharing infrasturucture:

  1. Institutional Arrangements
  2. Legal, Privacy and Security Issues
  3. Record and Information Standards and Other Technical Issues

Way Forward

The current plan of the Steering Committee is to formulate in the first half of 2008 its initial recommendations for a work programme including pilot projects that would move us towards the ultimate goal of developing a territory-wide eHR sharing infrastructure.  The recommendations are intended to cover the overall strategy for the further development of eHR systems in both the public and private sectors, and the neccessary components to enable eHR sharing between different health care providers especially between public and private sectors.  The recommendations will also include way forward on institutional arrangements, legal framework as well as technical standards.

 

 

 

 

 

December 2007   Issue 2

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