A recent article in HealthAffairs describes a significant decline in the number of both operational HIEs and HIEs in the planning stage from several years earlier. The authors note continuing barriers to broad-based HIE and a shift to vendor-driven exchange which diminishes the effectiveness of community-based networks. In effect, this translates to a shift away from geographic-based/dominated HIEs to product-dominated HIEs. We have already noted (see The Interoperability of Things) the lack of a national strategy on HIE, and ONC’s Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap barely mentions the concept.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Enterprise Integration (formerly the Office of Policy and Planning, Enterprise Program Management Office) has established a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with Atlas Research to provide a wide range of professional support services to bring program/project management and process improvement best practices to critical VA programs...Atlas Research will support the implementation of the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 (“Choice Act”) and key initiatives under the MyVA reorganization plan. The transformation will impact millions of internal and external stakeholders as VA strives to provide Veterans with seamless, integrated, and responsive services.
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