WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- DirectTrust is pleased to announce eClinicalWorks, MedAllies and Surescripts as Platinum Sponsors of its 5th annual networking reception at HIMSS18, to be held in Las Vegas, March 5-9. DirectTrust is a non-profit health care industry alliance created to advance the sharing of personal health information (PHI) between provider organizations, and between providers and patients, for the purpose of improved transitions of care, care efficiency and coordination, patient satisfaction and reducing healthcare cost.
"We are honored to count eClinicalWorks, MedAllies and Surescripts among DirectTrust’s 114-member organizations, and for serving as Platinum Sponsors of our 5th annual HIMSS networking reception," said DirectTrust President and CEO David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA. "These organizations are dedicated to promoting and enhancing Direct interoperability of healthcare information exchange. In doing so, they are helping make Direct interoperability universal, and easy and economical to use for care coordination and a multitude of other purposes."
eClinicalWorks® a leader in healthcare IT solutions, with more than 130,000 physicians and nurse practitioners, provides innovative, customizable EHR and PM solutions for primary care and specialty providers. eClinicalWorks’ customers include ACOs, physician practices, hospitals, community health centers, departments of health, and convenient care clinics. During the past nine years, 19 eClinicalWorks customers have received the prestigious HIMSS Davies Award, honoring excellence in EHR implementation. eClinicalWorks has been a DirectTrust member since 2013 and uses eClinicalDirect HISP for Direct interoperability.
MedAllies is a leading health information service provider that connects healthcare organizations, their patients and their business partners in support of direct interoperability across all certified EHR vendor products for the secure exchange of authenticated personal health information over the internet. An ONC Direct Reference Implementation Vendor and DirectTrust member since 2012, MedAllies also provides EHR implementations, primary care, specialty, and medical neighborhood medical home transformation support to improve clinical care.
Surescripts serves the nation with the single most trusted and capable health information network, built to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. Since 2001, Surescripts has led the movement to turn data into actionable intelligence, and convened network participants to enhance e-prescribing, inform care decisions and advance healthcare. Visit us at surescripts.com and follow us at twitter.com/surescripts. The Surescripts Network Alliance includes virtually all electronic health records (EHRs), pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), pharmacies and clinicians. Surescripts has been a DirectTrust member since 2012.
DirectTrust's 5th annual networking reception will be held on March 7 at The Venetian, Lido 3105, from 6:30-9:00pm PST. Approximately 100 guests are expected to attend.
About DirectTrust
DirectTrust is a five-year old, non-profit, vendor neutral, self-regulatory entity initially created by and for participants in the Direct community, including Health Internet Service Providers (HISPs), Certificate Authorities (CAs), Registration Authorities (RAs), doctors, patients and vendors, and supports both provider-to-provider as well as patient-to-provider Direct exchange. In the period 2013 to 2015, DirectTrust was the recipient of a Cooperative Agreement Award from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as part of the Exemplar HIE Governance Program. DirectTrust serves as a forum and governance body for persons and entities engaged in the Direct exchange of electronic health information as part of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN). DirectTrust's Security and Trust Framework is the basis for the voluntary accreditation of service providers implementing Direct health information exchange. The goal of DirectTrust is to develop, promote, and, as necessary, help enforce the rules and best practices necessary to maintain security and trust within the Direct community, consistent with the HITECH Act and the governance rules for the NwHIN established by ONC. DirectTrust is committed to fostering widespread public confidence in the interoperable exchange of health information. To learn more, visit www.directtrust.org.
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