DirectTrust

The Continued Growth of Direct Secure Messaging

By Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser – As the ASTP blog indicates, the interoperability landscape has certainly shifted from when the Direct Project was introduced back in 2009/2010. At the time, there were significant government efforts for two interoperable exchange modalities, one for “push,” and one for “query.” Today, both of these modalities continue to grow.


Achieving Widespread Use of Direct Secure Messaging by US Hospitals

By Jordan Everson & Brett Andriesen – The Direct Project created Direct Secure Messaging, a simple, secure, scalable, and standards-based method to send health information between partners and to provide a straightforward pathway to acquire unique provider and organizational addresses to engage in exchange that resembles secure email.



Socialcare on FHIR over Direct

By Brian D. Handspicker – This post builds upon a recent blog by Lisa Nelson, Fractional Chief Technical Officer, “FHIR Over Direct: Accelerating the Pace toward Trusted, Scalable Interoperability,” by exploring how the same approach of FHIR Over Direct can be applied to socialcare — a critical but often underrepresented component of health and well-being.



Driving Health Data in D.C.

By Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser – Recently, Scott Stuewe, our President and CEO, and I represented DirectTrust in Washington, D.C. alongside fellow leaders, where we gained clarity around the future of our industry under this Administration, and how we may collectively respond.


Health IT Appointments & Hires

Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include Sonio, DirecTrust, symplr, Pager Health, Get Well, MacroHealth, Biocartis, Tend Health, AMA, NextGen Healthcare, Evidently, DexCare, R1, Lark Health, Sightview, CereCore, & DUOS.