IBM Propels Nationwide Health Information Network

IBM Propels Nationwide Health Information Network

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled its technology foundation for the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) that enables secure access to healthcare data and real time information sharing and exchange of healthcare data among physicians, patients, hospitals, laboratories and pharmacies, regardless of where the medical data is located.

Under contract to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), IBM has developed a standards-based system, based on a service oriented architecture (SOA) to connect information, that allows for a secure nationwide healthcare information exchange across widely dispersed healthcare communities.

The IBM solution brings patients and clinicians one step closer to electronic medical records and a more efficient, flexible and cost effective healthcare delivery system. Additionally, the IBM NHIN solution also provides a future, flexible roadmap for insurance companies, governmental regulatory agencies and other healthcare related organizations and researchers to have the ability to access and exchange pertinent health information.

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