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Podcast: Healthcare IT Today Interviews
Episode: eHealth Exchange is Promoting Health Record Sharing, Past and Future
Description: eHealth Exchange, a non-profit started by Health & Human Services and now a separate non-profit, helps health care institutions exchange over two billion records a month. In this video, President Jay Nakashima explains the role they play, particularly in public health, scaling FHIR® and TEFCA™.Nakashima presents an interesting history of eHealth Exchange (originally named the National Health Information Network), including how close it came to being shut down after it first demonstrated in 2006 that the electronic exchange of patient documents was feasible. It is still around and thriving as a non-profit.Learn more about eHealth Exchange:https://ehealthexchange.org/Hea...