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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

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

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

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

SPOTLIGHT: VA, Kaiser to test EMR data sharing in San Diego

The two largest health systems in America are joining together to test clinical data interchange over the fledgling Nationwide Health Information Network. As part of a pilot announced with much

VA, Kaiser to test EMR data sharing in San Diego

The two largest health systems in America are joining together to test clinical data interchange over the fledgling Nationwide Health Information Network. As part of a pilot announced with much

HIE deploys open-source interoperability software

Here comes the first wave of products with "meaningful use" in their names. Open-source health IT company Mirth Corp., has an interoperability program called the Mirth Meaningful Use Exchange (Mirth

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

Social Security to join VA, DoD interoperability effort

The Social Security Administration will start sharing electronic health information with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs early next year to help expedite claims processing for