ONC Announces Launch of "Direct Project" Pilots

03-01-2011
View the announcing the launch of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's (ONC) Direct Project with comments from Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer; Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; and other key contributors.
 
Launched in March 2010 as a part of the Nationwide Health Information Network, the Direct Project was created to specify a secure, scalable, and standards-based way for participants to easily send authenticated, encrypted health information directly to known, trusted recipients over the Internet.
 
The White House and ONC announced that two pilot programs, one in Minnesota and another in Rhode Island, have begun using Direct Project-based information exchange.
 

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