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The Health Data Interoperability Highway Is Coming. Is Your Organization Ready?

by Lee Barrett, Commission Executive Director of DirectTrust 01/20/2023 Leave a Comment

health data The Interoperability Highway Is Coming. Is Your Organization Ready?

Not many of us remember a time when there weren’t interstates widely available to help us get to where we need to go. Winding roads and sleepy towns can be nostalgic, but they’re not great time savers when time is of the essence. At a macro level, The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) promises to be the interoperability superhighway for healthcare data, speeding information on patients from care facility and care provider — regardless of location or healthcare entity —
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DirectTrust and EHNAC Announce Merger Agreement

by Fred Pennic 11/17/2022 Leave a Comment

CHIME, DirectTrust Partner to Promote Secure, Interoperable Exchange of Health Information

What You Should Know: - DirectTrust and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) today announced an agreement to merge EHNAC with and into DirectTrust, effective January 4, 2023.  - DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information. EHNAC is a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body for organizations that electronically
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DirectTrust Acquires Assets of SAFE Identity to Support Healthcare Interoperability

by Jasmine Pennic 08/31/2021 Leave a Comment

DirectTrust Acquires Assets of SAFE Identity to Support Healthcare Interoperability

What You Should Know: - DirectTrust today announced it has acquired the assets of SAFE Identity (including Trust Framework), an industry consortium and certification body supporting identity assurance and cryptography in healthcare.  Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. - The acquisition substantially extends DirectTrust’s capabilities and services and is expected to enable new and expanded interoperability use cases. Post-Acquisition Plans As part of the
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DirectTrust Founding President/CEO to Step Down At End of Year

by HITC Staff 02/21/2018 Leave a Comment

DirectTrust: 5 Health IT Trends to Watch in 2017

DirectTrust today announced that founding President and Chief Executive Officer, David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA, will step down at the end of the year.  The DirectTrust Board of Directors has launched a nationwide search for a successor. DirectTrust is a non-profit health care industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of personal health information (PHI) between provider organizations, and between provider and patients, for the purpose of improved coordination
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CHIME, DirectTrust Partner to Promote Secure, Interoperable Exchange of Health Information

by Fred Pennic 08/30/2017 Leave a Comment

CHIME, DirectTrust Partner to Promote Secure, Interoperable Exchange of Health Information

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and DirectTrust today announced they are collaborating to promote the universal deployment of the DirectTrust framework and health information exchange network as the standard electronic interface for health information exchange across the country.DirectTrust’s network is the largest standards-based network for the exchange of health information, with more than 1.5 million send and receive endpoints, at over 100,000 healthcare
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DirectTrust: 5 Health IT Trends to Watch in 2017

by HITC Staff 01/10/2017 Leave a Comment

DirectTrust: 5 Health IT Trends to Watch in 2017

DirectTrust, a health care industry alliance created by and for participants in the Direct exchange network used for secure, interoperable messaging of personal health information (PHI) has released their list of of five health IT trends to watch in 2017. The five health IT trends outlined by DirectTrust President and CEO David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA are his thoughts about what he expects could develop over the next year that would shape the ecosystem of health IT as an industry.“One has to begin any
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DirectTrust Launches Partnership for Patients Program to Securely Share PHI

by HITC Staff 05/31/2016 Leave a Comment

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DirectTrust today announced the launch of Partnership for Patients Program (P4PP), an initiative that will make it easier for patients and health care consumers to securely share personal health information with medical professionals at hospitals, offices, clinics and other locations via secure email. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires that health care providers provide access to personal health information in the format and file type—including
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DirectTrust CEO Responds to Flexibility in EHR Reporting Act

by HITC Staff 04/28/2016 Leave a Comment

DirectTrust CEO Responds to Flexibility in EHR Reporting Act

On April 20, U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) and U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced the Flexibility in EHR Reporting Act (H.R. 5001) to bring flexibility to electronic reporting requirements for healthcare providers. Specifically, H.R. 5001 would make it easier for health care providers to comply with Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) IT reporting requirements. As reported by Ripon Advance News Service, “Under the bill, healthcare providers would be allowed to report IT upgrades
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