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HHS awards contracts for nationwide health information network

HealthLeaders News Brief, October 16, 2007
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt announced the award of contracts totaling $22.5 million to nine health information exchanges (HIEs) to begin trial implementations of the Nationwide Health Information Network.

These contracts will create a foundation for basic health information exchange between select HIEs upon which more complex functions will be possible over time, Leavitt said in a statement. "These trial implementations are taking place in communities across America that are leading the way to health care transformation using secure, interoperable health information technology," Secretary Leavitt said. "Trial implementations of the Nationwide Health Information Network will bring us steps closer to a health IT system that will improve quality of care, increase efficiencies in health care, and improve disease prevention."

Awardees include the following organizations, representing broad-based state and regional health information exchanges:
  • CareSpark--Tricities region of Eastern Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia
  • Delaware Health Information Network--Delaware
  • Indiana University--Indianapolis metroplex
  • Long Beach Network for Health--Long Beach and Los Angeles, California
  • Lovelace Clinic Foundation--New Mexico
  • MedVirginia--Central Virginia
  • New York eHealth Collaborative--New York
  • North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc.--North Carolina
  • West Virginia Health Information Network--West Virginia