ONCHIT Healthcare IT Interoperability RFPs

On June 2005, the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) published four RFPs designed to encourage public and private efforts aimed at harmonizing health IT interoperability standards and to fund prototypes and demonstrations of alternative approaches to a Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) - http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/contracts.html.

Records For Living has responded to two of the RFPs, proposing designs that meet requirements while additionally supporting the extension of interoperability services to consumers.

ONCHIT1 - Standard Harmonization Process for Health Information Technology

We propose a standards harmonization infrastructure that is based on a secure metadata-driven foundation, with support for reporting, auditing, versioning, and rich transformation semantics. Our proposal envisions leveraging mature, industry solutions such as those that have been successfully used in the fields of database and data warehousing management.

• ONCHIT1 - Technical Architecture Proposal - (July 6th, 2005, PDF 0.8MB)

ONCHIT3 - Prototype for a Nationwide Health Information Network architecture

Our proposal specifies a NHIN architecture that encourages innovation, creativity, and technical experimentation by delegating policy-making responsibility to the lowest levels possible. Our architecture supports national standards, with localized control.

• ONCHIT3 - Technical Architecture Proposal - (July 19th, 2005, PDF 1.2MB)

Contacts

For more information, including how your RHIO, healthcare provider or vendor organization can partner with Records For Living to implement consumer-friendly interoperability solutions contact us via email - at info@RecordsForLiving.com