@article {17850667, title = {Indivo: a personally controlled health record for health information exchange and communication.}, journal = {BMC medical informatics and decision making}, volume = {7}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {25}, abstract = {BACKGROUND: Personally controlled health records (PCHRs), a subset of personal health records (PHRs), enable a patient to assemble, maintain and manage a secure copy of his or her medical data. Indivo (formerly PING) is an open source, open standards PCHR with an open application programming interface (API). RESULTS: We describe how the PCHR platform can provide standard building blocks for networked PHR applications. Indivo allows the ready integration of diverse sources of medical data under a patient{\textquoteright}s control through the use of standards-based communication protocols and APIs for connecting PCHRs to existing and future health information systems. CONCLUSION: The strict and transparent personal control model is designed to encourage widespread participation by patients, healthcare providers and institutions, thus creating the ecosystem for development of innovative, consumer-focused healthcare applications.}, url = {http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/7/25/}, author = {Mandl, Kenneth D and Simons, William W and Crawford, William C R and Abbett, Jonathan M} }