Thursday, September 27, 2012

Establishing Trust and Interoperability in the Post-NwHIN Governance Era

McGraw, Devon. "Establishing Trust and Interoperability in the Post-NwHIN Governance Era." iHealthBeat, September 27, 2012.

From the blog: "At the September meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee, National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari announced that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT was dropping its plans to issue regulations setting voluntary "rules of the road" for participation in the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN). This action removes one potential tool for advancing a framework of standards and policies to enable digital health information exchange among providers and patients." Read more