Fw: HHS Releases Report on Nationwide Health Information Exchange

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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 5:22 PM

Subject: HHS Releases Report on Nationwide Health Information 
Exchange

The U.S. Department of Health and 
Human Services today released a report summarizing over 500 responses totaling 
nearly 5,000 pages of information to the HHS' Office of the National Coordinator 
for Health Information Technology's (ONCHIT) Request for Information (RFI) 
published November 15, 2004 seeking public comment on how to best achieve 
widespread interoperability of health information through a nationwide health 
information network (NHIN).

 

The report, Summary of Nationwide 
Health Information Network Request for Information Responses, is a compilation 
of the RFI responses.  This report is an illustrative summary of the RFI 
responses and does not attempt to analyze or discuss the relative merits of the 
responses nor is it exhaustive in its review.  Below are links to a press 
release announcing the report and the full report.

 

  
Press Release - http://wwwhhs.gov/news/press/2005pres/20050603.html= 
  

 

  
Full report (hotlink) 
  - http://www.hhsgov/healthit/rfisummaryreport.pdf.