Continuity of care record. A family practitioner and thought leader in health IT, Dr. Kibbe is best known for the Continuity of Care Record, an open standard for patient electronic health records. CCR does two good things: it is a "patient-centric summary" of a person's medical data, and does not reinvent the wheel by digitizing everything ; two, because CCRt uses XML, it can circumvents the "interoperability" problems created by the custom software systems between large health organizations. This makes a PHR truly portable. Kibbe first published his standard in 2006. An entrepreneur, Dr. Kibbe's companies included Canopy Systems, which made web-based software for case management, and was acquired by A4. He remains a senior advisor to the American Academy of Family Physicians on issues of technology. He is a frequent contributor to The Health Care Blog and an editor on Medpedia.

On THCB about health IT's "Gordian knot":

"The upshot is that the term "EHR" is no longer very useful. It creates more confusion than it resolves. This is more than a quibble. One can never be certain what EHR refers to: health data in electronic format; a technology that is designed to handle electronic health records in some fashion; an EHR software program... It is not necessary to accept this confusion."