Background#R##N#American public policy makers recently established the goal of providing the majority of Americans with electronic health records by 2014. This will require a National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) that is far more complete than the one that is currently in its formative stage of development. We describe a conceptual framework to help measure progress toward that goal.
['Dean F. Sittig', 'Richard N. Shiffman', 'Kevin J. Leonard', 'Charles P. Friedman', 'Barbara Rudolph', 'George Hripcsak', 'Laura L. Adams', 'Lawrence C. Kleinman', 'Rainu Kaushal']
A draft framework for measuring progress towards the development of a national health information infrastructure