NHIN news from FierceHealthIT
NewsHIEs 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 Read more...
$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 Read more...
HIE building efforts get a lift with Aurion open-source software update
The Alembic Foundation has released the second version of its open-source health information exchange software to the public. Based on the CONNECT program developed for the Nationwide Health Read more...
CONNECT to undergo facelift with help of federal grant
The government has decided to continue developing its CONNECT software, which links users to the National Health Information Network (NHIN) and can be downloaded for free by private health Read more...
Committee wants to recast NHIN as set of policies
The Nationwide Health Information Network should be recast as a set of policies and standards to facilitate exchange of health data rather than a physical network connecting databases, a federal Read more...
National leadership for health IT
The health IT community was rather stunned when President George W. Bush dropped this one line into his 2004 State of the Union address: "By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous Read more...
Feds ask vendors for help with health IT networks
For several years, the Nationwide Health Information Network has been operating pilot projects with more than a dozen federal and state agencies, but the truth is, it still doesn't seem to be Read more...
HHS to sponsor open source 'code-a-thon' for NHIN
Later this month, HHS plans to sponsor a "code-a-thon"--a gathering for open-source programmers--focused on finding ways to improve the CONNECT gateway software used to access the Nationwide Health Read more...
National Health Information Network begins test data exchange
Last week, a handful of participants began the first practical data exchange of the national health information network (NHIN), a move that gains significance in the wake of newly-passed $20 billion Read more...
New HIE to span 12 European countries
Here at FierceHealthIT, we usually report on projects taking place in the United States, but this one was so large, we couldn't resist giving you an update. With support from the European Commission, Read more...
| Press ReleasesHeart IT and Johns Hopkins Medicine Announce the Award of NIH Grant to Include Images in the Nationwide Health Information NetwoHeart IT Technology Enables Smaller Healthcare Providers the Ability to Access and Share Medical Images Affordably via the Nationwide Health Information Network utilizing WebPAX®. DURHAM, Read more >> Hawaii's Health Information Helping Others ("HIHO") Health Information Exchange Expands Wellogic Implementation to Include DirecInitiative expands Wellogic Health Information Exchange (HIE) implementation to include:HONOLULU and BOSTON, April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Seventy Hawaii physicians in private practice on the island Read more >> IDGA’s Electronic Health Records Summit for Government and Military will Convene its Third Meeting October 27 – 29, 2010NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Institute for Defense and Government Advancement (IDGA) is pleased to announce the third installment of the Electronic Health Records Summit, scheduled for October 27 Read more >> Jericho Systems’ EnterSpace Decisioning Service (ESDS) Enables Secure and Private Exchange of Patient Medical Records betwJericho Plays Key Role in Delivery of President Obama’s Vision for a Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Jericho Systems Corporation, a leader in distributed Read more >> |
