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Note: Virginia test integrates federal Direct Project protocols and Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange standards to create secure, two-way exchange of patient health information.
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Slideshow: 17 Leading EHR VendorsVerizon and Medfx have successfully piloted a health data exchange project using Direct Project protocols and Nationwide Health Information Network (NWHIN) Exchange standards to enable doctors at two healthcare delivery organizations to exchange, store, access, and share patient information.
Announced April 5, the pilot is one of the first successful health information exchange (HIE)-based demonstrations to integrate two key federal health IT initiatives -- the Direct Project and NWHIN Exchange -- that are designed to improve care management through secure, two-way exchange of patient health information. The pilot was supported by Verizon's IP networks and other services offered through its Verizon Connected Healthcare Solutions program.
The health delivery organizations in the pilot are Dominion Medical Associates, a Richmond, Va.-based independent, minority-owned physician practice with more than 5,000 active patients, and CenVaNet, a healthcare provider network with 900 physicians and 11 not-for-profit hospitals serving central Virginia. They used MedVirginia, a community-based HIE that provides a platform to link clinical data from...