Government Technology
Government Technology: State & Local Government News Articles

HHS Contracts with AHIMA, eHI and HIMSS to Develop Practices for State Health Information Exchange Organizations

Bookmark and Share
Comment
You May Also Like

Mar 1, 2007, News Report

Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced a contract award to foster collaboration among state leaders in health information exchange (HIE) to identify and share emerging best practices. The one-year, $800,000 contract with the American Health Information Management Association's (AHIMA) Foundation of Research and Education (FORE) will start in March, 2007. The project will work to identify successful governance models that include defined operations, resources and finances to generate, support and amplify health information exchange. Shared results and recommended guidance are intended to support health information exchange across the country. Delivering guidance to state and local health information exchange efforts will help support the development of a nationwide network of networks to enable health care transformation and lower costs.



Latest Government Technology News


Industry Solutions for Government

Read real world deployments of technology in government from our sponsors.

View All Industry Solutions

Related Products and Services

Marketplace


Get Govtech's Daily Newsletter

Video

More Video >

Government Jobs

Browse hundreds of public sector career opportunities in GovTech's new jobs section. Popular job searches: government IT, public safety, GIS, transportation, CIO, security, health