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By Greg Turner

By Lauren Thompson, Director, Federal Health Architecture

HIMSS 2012 is almost here! This year, as in past years, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) have partnered with federal and state agencies and private sector health organizations to deliver a series of health IT interoperability demonstrations within the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase.

By Greg Turner

CONNECT Development Team

The new year has arrived, and with the release of the next major version of CONNECT just around the corner in March, the development team is working hard preparing for the roll out of version 3.3. To better meet the needs of the federal partners involved in the CONNECT project and to address the needs of the CONNECT community at large, the latest version of the software will incorporate new strategic features, performance improvements, maintenance fixes and software updates.

The CONNECT team will host its sixth CONNECT Code-A-Thon Dec. 15-16 at the University of California, Berkeley.

By Lauren Thompson, Director, Federal Health Architecture

The CONNECT team is pleased to release version 3.2.1 today, which is now available for download.  This release is essentially a bug release, with a more comprehensive release, CONNECT 3.3, scheduled for this winter.

Examples of fixes built into 3.2.1 include:

The CONNECT team hosted a record number of participants at the fifth CONNECT Code-a-Thon, held Aug. 9-10 at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. The program wants to thank Johns Hopkins and the Department of Defense’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) for providing the facility to host the CONNECT Community.

Director, Standards Division, Office of the Standards and Interoperability, ONC

Summer is almost here – just a couple of short days away! And while we’ve all been preparing for summer camp for the kids, travel plans and vacation schedules, the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) team within the Office of Standards and Interoperability at the ONC has also been preparing. The program has been busy lining up the contracts and resources to pick up CONNECT where we left off almost nine months ago when the previous development contract ended.

Borja and Reznikov will provide technical leadership to the CONNECT program as part of the program management office under the Federal Health Architecture. Both have stellar work histories and are veterans in providing technical and architectural guidance to large-scale software development projects. They will assist the government in managing contractors working on CONNECT development.