Government awards health information grants
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, November 21, 2005
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The government recently awarded $18.6 million in grants to develop a nationwide system for exchanging health information, Healthcare IT News reports.
Accenture, Computer Sciences Corp., IBM, and Northrup Grumman are the largest companies on the grant list. They will work with four contract winners to test authentication processes and other technologies. The four groups must also be able to communicate with each other.
Six contracts were supposed to be awarded, but funding uncertainties forced the move to four. More contracts are possible if Congress grants more money for the project. The goal of the project is not to create a single network for information exchange, but a series of networks that can communicate with one another, much as cell phone networks do, reports Healthcare IT News.
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