States Seek Direct Messages For Health Data During Disasters

InformationWeek: The growth of access to Direct secure messaging will help guarantee the availability of health information in the 10 states that recently entered a compact to exchange patient data in case of a natural or a man-made disaster. But, as a July 2012 report by the Southeast Regional HIT-HIE Collaboration (SERCH) makes clear, neither Direct messaging nor regional health information exchanges that would serve as the hub for such point-to-point messaging in an emergency are universally available.

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