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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
HIEs discover new ways to use 'Direct Project' messaging protocol
Health information exchanges are finding their own ways to use the Direct Project standards to achieve their quality and coordination objectives, panelists revealed in a discussion of the
Break down all barriers to health information exchange
Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health IT, discussed the obstacles to the interoperability of health information systems in a recent interview with HealthLeaders Media. To overcome these
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
ONC pushing for standards to increase interoperability
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is pushing hard for universal adoption of standards that will increase the interoperability of health IT applications, according to Doug
$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
EHR vendor cooperation vital to interoperability workgroup
The agreement by seven states, eight electronic health record vendors, and three health information exchange vendors on an initial set of standards for exchanging health data is a major step toward
Consensus on digital certificates should boost Direct Project messaging
The Direct Project , the secure clinical messaging protocol introduced earlier this year, has advanced to the next level with the announcement that a workgroup of the Direct Project consortium has
Why Halamka's health IT predictions might overestimate the future
John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, is one of the most respected opinion leaders in health IT. He's also one of
Google Health to shut down at year's end
How far has Google Health really fallen? To answer our own question from just over a month ago, off the map entirely. The platform, which already was under heavy scrutiny, will shut down due to a
