HIMSS Video: Fast Forward for ONCs Direct Project

HIMSS Video: Arien Malec Office of the Nat'l Coordinator for Health IT

ORLANDO, Fla.—At HIMSS 2010, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT launched the Direct Project with a Powerpoint presentation and a concept: enable every provider in the country to have access to universal addressing and transport capabilities that will let them push information to other providers, regardless of network, health information exchange or EHR, says Arien Malec, coordinator of the Direct Project and coordinator of the Standards and Interoperability Framework at ONC.

Fast forward to HIMSS 2011: After a year of gathering support, developing the basic use cases, deciding on an approach and building it out in fine-grain detail, there were demonstrations of Direct Project pilot implementations at the show. In a video interview, Malec spoke about the future of the Direct Project and other standards and interoperability initiatives at the ONC.