Leavitt lays the groundwork for NHIN standards: HHS touts public-private collaboration for HIT interoperability.(Health IT)(United States. Department of Health and Human Services)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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In the Department of Health and Human Services' ongoing mission to create a nationwide electronic health information network, Secretary Michael Leavitt is putting many of last year's plans into action. Accompanying Leavitt's efforts, a massive compilation of private-sector input on the NHIN's interoperability has proven to be an invaluable wealth of information.

HHS released its Summary of NHIN Request for Information Responses on June 3. This report consolidates nearly 5,000 pages of the public's suggestions, and sums up more than 500 responses, on how HHS should develop and adopt a NHIN. "The responses from the RFI yielded one of the richest and most descriptive collections of thoughts...

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