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Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN): Prototype ArchitecturesIn its first year, the NHIN established four consortia to design and evaluate standards-based prototype architectures for the NHIN. These prototypes demonstrated the advancement of:
In addition to the prototype architectures, other significant accomplishments from the first year of the NHIN included:
A Summary Report of the NHIN Prototype Architecture Contracts (PDF) is available that describes the first year’s work and details common elements that will be used in the next step in the NHIN - “NHIN Trial Implementations”. |
Medical Identity Theft Town Hall Plans Underway; To learn more, visit ONC Commissioned Medical Identity Theft Assessment. The ONC-Coordinated Upcoming Events HL7 22nd Plenary and Working Group Meeting Personal Experiences "We have hospitals in Afghanistan and Iraq, and many of the soldiers would arrive without records in Germany, with no record of the CAT scans or what happened in surgery in Afghanistan or Iraq. The clinicians in Germany would have to re-operate on the patient, would have to redo all their x-ray evaluations, CAT scans, etc...." ~ Colonel John Holcomb Stay Informed Stay Informed! Join our Listserv for automatic updates |