General

By Lauren Thompson
Director, Federal Health Architecture

The CONNECT team hosted a vendor symposium on April 30 and May 1 at the Social Security Administration in Baltimore. The purpose of the event was to gain an understanding from industry about their experiences and suggestions as we transition CONNECT to an open-source contribution model employing a custodian.  

By Deepthi Rodrigues and Greg Turner

In the summer of 2011, the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange Coordinating Committee approved the newest set of specifications for use by Exchange participants.

What does this mean for you and your organization?

By Ryan Halferty, developer

Have you been looking at CONNECT? Have you wondered if you can successfully install such a large application? Do you wonder, is CONNECT just a large piece of software that will hog my resources? Is all the information making your confusion worse?

By Jennifer Puyenbroek, Matthew Weaver and Glen Marshall

By Paul Eftis, Lead Developer

The CONNECT version 3.3 release is much more than just a minor release update: it contains numerous new features and functionality, in addition to changes and optimizations to existing implementation code.  Here are some of the best new features:

1.  The NwHIN specs!
We’ve implemented the NwHIN specifications that we approved in the summer of 2011, including:

By Greg Turner

By Eric Larson

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.