HHS Awards Contracts for Trial Implementations of the Nationwide Health Information Network

by Barbara Kram, Editor | October 09, 2007

Interim NHIN results will be shared through three public forums and other public demonstrations of real-time information exchange at the end of the first contract year (September 2008).

Once created, the NHIN health information exchanges' specifications and related testing materials will be placed in the public domain to facilitate widespread participation in the developing the NHIN.

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HIEs are networks that securely connect electronic health records for providers and patients. Together, these HIEs will form the "network of networks," that will form the NHIN. The NHIN trial implementations will leverage recent accomplishments of HHS, its contractors and partners, including: the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT), the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC) and the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS).

More details on these contracts are available at http://www.hhs.gov/healthit.

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