A Governance Framework Supporting Access to Health Information
Author: S. McBride
Date: October 2006
Abstract:
The National e-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) defines health information as personal information that is associated with information about an individual’s health or is collected to provide a health service. Approaches to providing access to health information vary but generally fall into two general categories: centralised (e.g. data warehousing) and distributed (e.g. data virtualisation). While there are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches, a key disadvantage of data warehousing in a health environment is the loss of control for Data Custodians.
The e-Health Research Centre’s Health Data Integration (HDI) product takes the distributed approach to accessing health information by virtualising data.
© 2006 CSIRO Australia
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