ONC hires Lockheed Martin to assist with NHIN

Justine Varieur Cadet | August 26, 2010 | Health Exec | Informatics

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has employed Lockheed Martin for two contracts to advance EHRs and secure health information exchanges to support the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), for a total of $9 million over two years.

Under the first contract, Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed will create new reference implementation software to support the development, testing and adoption of future NHIN capabilities. The second contract calls for the development of real-world demonstrations and pilots for emergent NHIN capabilities.

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