NHIN Direct is a project being developed by the Nationwide Health Information Network that aims
to enable secure health information exchange (HIE)
over the Internet for primary care physicians, specialists and public health agencies. (NHIN,
in contrast, is intended for hospitals and other large health care providers.)
NHIN Direct itself will not be an HIE entity. Rather, the project’s stakeholders, who include
providers, laboratories, hospitals, pharmacies and patients, intend to develop standards and
service definitions, implementation guides, reference implementations and testing frameworks. These
standards and policies are expected to be finished by the end of 2010, in time for providers to
implement HIE as they progress toward the meaningful use of health
information technology (HIT).
This was last updated in October 2010
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