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OpenHRE Tests Record Locator Service Prototype

Open Health Records Exchange (OpenHRE) is participating in a national prototype health records exchange project. On Wednesday June 1, 2005 Connecting for Health announced a demonstration project featuring three communities testing the Record Locator Service (RLS). The demonstration is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2005. Connecting for Health is a public-private collaborative designed to address the barriers to development of an interconnected health information infrastructure in the United States. OpenHRE is an open source project devloping a standards-based, scalable, multi-level Record Locator Service with federated records exchange and secure access control. The OpenHRE RLS is based on the OpenEMed project.