Direct, Sequoia Interoperability Projects Continue To Grow

While its fate may still be uncertain – as with any interoperability approach in this day and age – the Direct exchange network seems to be growing at least. At the same time, it looks like the Sequoia Project’s interoperability efforts, including the Carequality Interoperability Framework and its eHealthExchange Network, are also expanding rapidly. According to a new announcement from DirectTrust, the number of health information service providers who engaged in Direct exchanges increased 63 percent during the first quarter of 2017, to almost 95,000, over the same period in 2016.  And, to put this growth in perspective, there were just 5,627 providers involved in Q1 of 2014. Meanwhile, the number of trusted Direct addresses which could share PHI grew 21 percent, to 1.4 million, as compared with the same quarter of 2016. Again, for perspective, consider that there were only 182,279 such addresses available three years ago. In addition, the Trust noted, there were 35.6 million Direct exchange transactions during the quarter, up 76 percent over the same period last year. It expects to see transaction levels hit 140 million by the end of this year. Also, six organizations joined DirectTrust during the first quarter of 2017, including Sutter Health, the Health Record Banking Alliance, Timmaron Group, Moxe Health, Uticorp and Anne Arundel Medical Center. This brings the total number of members to 124. Of course, DirectTrust isn’t the only interoperability group throwi...
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