HHS awards contracts to nine health information exchanges around country
Patient Safety Monitor Alert
October 9, 2007
Secretary Mike Leavitt of the Department of Human and Health Services (HHS) announced on October 5 that it was awarding $25.2 million worth of contracts to nine health information exchanges (HIE) around the country. The HIEs will explore implementing a national health information network (NHIN). This plan comes as a forerunner to the proposed national electronic health record by 2014.The HIEs using the NHIN will demonstrate how easily health information can be communicated on a national level. Results will be made public at the end of the first year of using the HIEs, in September 2008.
To read the release from the HHS, click here.
