Impact Statements
Wendy Carr
Member, Washington State Health Infrastructure Advisory Board &
Chair, Consumer and Provider Engagement Committee
"The health information exchange in Washington that is being built is based on a consumer-centric health record banking (HRB) model. The Connecting for Health paper, A Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information, gave me industry concepts and language to explain our model to my committee and Board -- that we are building a networked PHR which is neither a tethered PHR nor a standard PHR. I had many local discussions on how a health record bank would serve as what Markle calls a 'Consumer Access Service.' The paper also described the two basic functions of Consumer Access Services that will be essential pieces of our pilot HRBs -- to aggregate data and to provide identity authentication for consumers, allowing them to enter the electronic space now populated by community data exchanges and their component provider organizations."
Wendy has over eight years of on-the-ground experience and responsibilities in community health care and state health insurance programs. She has worked as a health initiatives project manager, program developer, and supervisor with expertise in bilingual and bicultural health care delivery. As a member of the Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board (HIIAB) and Chair of the Consumer and Provider Engagement Committee, she has been involved in drafting a final report on vision and next steps for Health IT in Washington State and assists with policy work to implement the HIIAB recommendations.
