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ONC issues RFI on NwHIN governance, lays framework for nonprofit entity
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has issued a request for information (RFI) on the mechanisms required for governance of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN),...
EHR standards proposal falls short on information exchange, expert says
EHR certification standards within the proposed Meaningful Use Stage 2 criteria is deficient in one important respect, according to John Loonsk, M.D., a former official of the Office of the National
ONC lays out strategy for health information exchange
The Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) lays out its 2012 strategy for health information exchange in a new Health Affairs paper . ONC plans to continue to develop the building
Experts: National HIE strategy evolving
There's consensus that the architecture of a nationwide health information network (NwHIN) is shifting. But there's less agreement as to whether this change is a favorable development. That's the
Fridsma: Healthcare communication is not one-size-fits-all
Doug Fridsma, Director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's Office of Standards & Interoperability, says he doesn't believe one-size-fits-all when it comes to healthcare
CMS to require dialysis centers to submit clinical data online
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this month will start requiring all 5,500 federally certified dialysis centers in the U.S. to submit facility-wide and patient-level data
HIEs in Ohio, Mississippi facilitate first interstate Direct messaging
For the first time, the Direct protocol for secure messaging has been used to exchange health data across state lines . Physician offices in Lima, Ohio, and Biloxi, Miss., used Direct messaging to
$2.25M grant helps Hopkins, vendor put medical images on NHIN
Johns Hopkins University and Heart Imaging Technologies (Heart IT), a Picture Archiving Communications Systems (PACS) vendor that makes a product enabling web-based access to medical images, have
Mostashari pushes for HIE, calls inaction risky
For health information exchange (HIE) to become widely adopted, the standards for HIE need to support advanced functions of electronic health records and address transport, security and content,
Renamed Direct Project to demonstrate email-like secure messaging
NHIN Direct, we hardly knew thee. The health information exchange protocol to help small physician practices participate in the Nationwide Health Information Network and achieve a key "meaningful
