Many readers wrote in and a ZDnet article was written on news that a major code base for health information exchange has been donated to the Open Health Tools group: OAKLAND, CA-August 11, 2008- Open Health
Tools (OHT) today announced it has accepted a donation from the
California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) of key
software components from a $10 million health information data exchange
project. CHCF provided the open source-format software code to OHT, a
community of information technology and health care participants, to help
accelerate establishment of regional health information exchanges, a
critical but often missing piece of the health care delivery system.
Information about the Open Health Information Exchange project (openHIE) can
be found at https://openhie.projects.openhealthtools.org/. Complete press release after the break. Continue reading