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Leavitt awards contracts to lay groundwork for health information network

Executive Briefings Digest, January 24, 2006

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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Mike Leavitt in November 2005 awarded contracts totaling $18.6 million to four health information technology groups to develop prototypes for a nationwide health information network architecture. The contracts will move the nation toward President Bush's goal of personal EHRs by creating a uniform architecture for healthcare information that can follow consumers throughout their lives.

HHS will release the architecture design for each network in the public domain to stimulate others to develop further innovative approaches to implementing health information technology. The prototypes will test

• information-locator services
• patient authentication
• security protections
• specialized network functions
• the feasibility of large-scale deployment

This work will help the American Health Information Community, a new federal advisory committee chaired by Secretary Leavitt that is charged with providing input to HHS and the industry about how to make health records digital and interoperable. Click here for more information.

Source: Electronic Health Records Briefing

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