On Monday, CGI announced the company will continue to support CONNECT, an open-source secure messaging platform connected to the eHealth Exchange. The U.S. government ended its own support on Sept. 15th.
The CONNECT open source solution, an e-gov initiative lead by the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) under the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), will transition from FHA management to the private sector.
“The FHA launched CONNECT a decade ago as a way to connect to what was then called the Nationwide Health Information Network (now known as the eHealth Exchange) using an open source platform,†said CGI Federal Vice-President, Ksheeraja Velangulam. “CGI is proud of our role in this important step toward nationwide health IT interoperability and pleased that our support will continue.â€
As the connected Health IT community expands, and the requirements to interoperate increase, CGI will provide integration and standards-based testing services for organizations in the federal government and the broader private and public health sector.
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