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Verizon Unveils ‘Cloud’ Solution to Facilitate Sharing of Patient Information Among Health Care Providers CNN - July 14, 2010

Health Information Exchange Will Enable Secure Web-Based Access - Anytime, Anywhere - to Patients’ Clinical Data

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ONC to issue ‘rules of the road’ for NHIN Exchange Government Health IT News - June 25, 2010

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT plans to establish rules of the road for the nationwide health information network (NHIN Exchange) in order to expand the kinds of organizations that can participate in it.

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ONC will have NHIN Direct HIE standards for small providers ready for testing this fall Fierce Health IT - June 21, 2010

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology this summer is wrapping up data transmission protocols and other technical details for NHIN Direct, the health information exchange protocol being developed for small physician practices.

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ONC preps for ‘real-world’ tests of NHIN Direct Government Health IT News - June 17, 2010

The Office of the National Coordinator is finalizing the details and design of NHIN Direct, the health information exchange tool-set it is preparing to help physicians and small practices share basic healthcare records securely over the Internet.

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VA backs ‘direct’ avenues to health info exchange Government Health IT News - June 16, 2010

The Veterans Affairs Department will incorporate options for rudimentary health information exchange (HIE) into its strategy for creating a virtual lifetime electronic record (VLER) for its beneficiaries, a senior VA official said.

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States’ roles will shift in new NHIN landscape Government Health IT News - March 11, 2010

"What is the motivation for providers to join a health information exchange if all they need is NHIN Direct to help them achieve meaningful use?"

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CCHIT, Premier comment on meaningful-use rule Healthcare IT News - March 12, 2010

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, not-for-profit electronic health-record tester, and group purchaser Premier have joined a wave of organizations and individuals filing official public comments on two federal rules governing the meaningful use and certification of EHRs.

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VA and DOD expand health data exchange pilot Federal Computer Week - Mar 09, 2010

The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are expanding their health data exchange pilot project to hospitals in the southeastern corner of Virginia to take advantage of the high concentration of current and retired military service members in that area.

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HHS names new state recipients of stimulus IT funds Modern Healthcare - March 16, 2010

HHS has announced $162 million in awards to 16 states and state-designated organizations to promote widespread meaningful use of health information technology throughout the country.

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NIST, partners developing tools to support health IT testing Health IT News - March 19, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the first of four installments of a new health IT test method and related software.

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Social Security Awards Nearly $20 Million in Recovery Act Contracts For Electronic Medical Records socialsecurity.gov - February 1, 2010

Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced that 15 healthcare providers and networks have received $17.4 million in contract awards to provide electronic medical records to the agency.

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MedVirginia to Expand MEGAHIT Project with SSA transworldnews.com - February 2, 2010

MedVirginia has announced that it will significantly expand its MEGAHIT project with the Social Security Administration (SSA). The company has partnered with Centra in an effort to bring three hospitals online with the SSA.

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VA, Kaiser Permanente Unveil Project to Exchange Patient Data Electronically transworldnews.com - January 7, 2010

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Kaiser Permanente have launched a pilot project in the San Diego area that they say will let them exchange—with a patient's permission—electronic health record data about health issues, medications, and allergies for the first time.

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A Guide to the Medical Home as a Practice-Level Intervention ajmc.com - December 15, 2009

The medical home (also known as patient-centered medical home or advanced medical home) is a composite policy construct applied to interventions intended to revitalize primary care practices and improve patient care.

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Capitol Hill Healthcare Information Technology Showcase and Demonstration healthitweek.org - September 21-25, 2009

National Health IT Week, Washington, D.C., featuring the Capitol Hill Healthcare Information Technology Showcase and Demonstration. Remarks by Members of Congress and federal officials begin at noon, followed by a live demonstration of the Nationwide Health Information Network.

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Coders meet, greet, pry open Connect gateway govhealthit.com - August 27, 2009

At the Department of Health and Human Service’s first-ever "code-a-thon" today, software programmers hunkered down to mash up software code for "Connect," a set of open source tools for exchanging health information over the budding nationwide health information network.

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Healthcare Reform Update: NHIN and Comparative Effectiveness Research are Focus of the Week himss.org - July 2, 2009

ONC conducted a NHIN CONNECT Seminar earlier this week that was well received by the nearly 1,100 participants over the two-day event. CONNECT is a software gateway built by more than 20 federal agencies to help them build health information exchanges and securely share data among themselves and with other levels of government and the private sector. It was built in open source and was released to the public in April for use by any organization. The solution addresses the need of organizations to share health data in compliance with Nationwide Health Information Network standards and agreements. The conference focused on the ways CONNECT is being used today, as well as the user community being built around the solution to truly bring CONNECT into the public domain.

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Federal Health Architecture Delivers Free, Scalable Solution Helping Organizations Tie Health IT Systems into the NHIN hhs.gov - April 6, 2009

The Federal Health Architecture is making software available as a first step to help public and private health information technology systems communicate to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), a federal initiative to facilitate the electronic exchange of health information. The Federal Health Architecture, an E-Gov initiative led by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), is making this free software, called CONNECT, and supporting documentation available at connectopensource.org.

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NHIN Advances Foundation for Interoperable HIE in 2009 himss.org - January 5, 2009

The 5th Nationwide Health Information Network Forum, held last month in Washington, D.C., showcased the groundbreaking work of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) trial implementations which began more than 14 months ago. This work, carried out by members of a public-private "NHIN Cooperative," lays the foundation that will serve as the next step toward secure nationwide interoperable HIE. By making information available when and where it is needed, nationwide exchange of health information promises to increase healthcare quality, reducing both cost and medical errors.

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