Download The Role of the Direct Project and NwHIN Exchange in HIE Platforms

How to get health information exchange (HIE) moving rapidly to improve care quality, safety, efficiency, and cost is one of the major healthcare challenges taken on by the Obama Administration. With more than half of all physicians still in paper-based practices, the task ahead is enormous.

The strategy is two-fold. To encourage providers to get connected, the federal government is offering financial incentives for physicians and hospitals to “meaningfully use” technology and health information exchange. In addition, to ensure that no physician or care setting is left behind, the government has been working to enhance and augment existing vendor products in a standards-based way – in other words, defining the lowest common denominator that all platforms should support to ensure secure transport of health information. This effort is carried out through two important initiatives: NwHIN Exchange and the Direct Project (formerly NwHIN Direct). They represent two sides of the same HIE coin – two different approaches for two different stakeholder groups with the goal of driving more electronic exchange of clinical information in the marketplace.

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