Consumer Empowerment: Consumer Access to Clinical Information Use Case

In January 2007, the American Health Information Community (AHIC) approved a recommendation to develop the Consumer Empowerment: Consumer Access to Clinical Information Use Case that addresses cross cutting AHIC priorities. AHIC is a federally-chartered advisory committee and provides input and recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on how to make health records digital and interoperable, and assure that the privacy and security of those records are protected, in a smooth, market-led way.

This use case has been developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), with opportunities for review and feedback by interested stakeholders within both the public and private sectors. To facilitate this process, the use case was developed in two stages:

• The Prototype Use Case, which describes the flows of the use case at a high level and facilitates initial discussion with stakeholders; and

• The Detailed Use Case, which documents all of the events and actions within the use case at a detailed level.

ONC would like to thank you for your participation in the development of the Consumer Empowerment: Consumer Access to Clinical Information Use Case. Your feedback has been invaluable. This use case will play an important role in advancing the national health IT agenda.

ONC distributed a high-level prototype of the use case and requested feedback in March 2007 and distributed and requested feedback on the detailed use case in May 2007. These activities resulted in approximately 307 feedback items from 41 organizations. Feedback has been incorporated into the applicable sections of the final Detailed Use Case.

If you are interested in receiving a summary of the dispositioned Consumer Access to Clinical Information feedback, please send an email message to: usecase1@hhs.gov and put "Feedback Disposition Requested" in the title. The disposition summary will include the feedback received from all organizations and individuals. In the circumstance where the submitter was anonymous, the submitter will be identified as "Anonymous" in the disposition summary.

The detailed use case is available for download:

• Use Case - Consumer Empowerment: Consumer Access to Clinical Information [PDF - 329KB]

Thank you again for your sharing your views and/or the views of your organization.

Sincerely,

Use Case Team - ONC

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
The Department of Health and Human Services