October 23, 2012
Early this year, a conversation spawned between a colleague and me regarding usage of the Direct Project in workflows other than simple email. It quickly became apparent that he had a specific use case in mind and was focused on a not-so-well understood section of the Direct Project specification: disposition notifications (how the Direct Project implements quality of service [QoS]).
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April 12, 2012
In part one of this series on the Direct Project, I discussed the backbone transport and message gateway the program uses. In part two, I explored Direct’s security and trust modules and the importance of establishing meaningful trust relationships between HISPs. In this brief, final post, I will define edge protocols and clients and briefly touch on a few policy elements that govern the day-to-day operations of Direct.
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April 10, 2012
In part one of this series, I dissected the Direct Project into discrete modules and provided a relatively in-depth view of the backbone transport and message gateway. In this post, I'll dive into the lifeblood of Direct: security and trust.
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April 06, 2012
Over the past month, I've taken on the daunting task of compiling my knowledge of the technical ins and outs of the Direct Project into an online developer's handbook to assist both my Cerner brethren and third party developers who have chosen Cerner Direct as their full-service health information service provider (HISP). As I looked back over the content, I realized there is a lot of material that is useful to a broader audience in the Direct community. So in the spirit of knowledge sharing, I'm sharing my insight (wisdom?) in a series of blog posts.
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June 10, 2011
As the Cerner Direct team has been working with our pilots, continuing to tweak our Web Inbox and HISP (Health Information Service Provider) services, and responding to RFPs, our whiteboard has been filling up with thoughts about what we’d look for when choosing a Direct HISP. It’s time to put those thoughts in a blog post.To be clear, our notes aren’t about choosing HISP software/services from a third party in order to become a HISP. Rather, they’re for organizations that intend to sign up with a service provider and begin securely exchanging health information, leaving the infrastructure build-out and maintenance to an organization that’s making a business of offering the services. In that sense, we’ve been thinking along the lines of choosing a cable provider or telecommunications carrier.
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April 05, 2011
As a follow up to the previous Direct Project post, which highlighted the essentials of the Direct Project and included a historical account of Cerner’s involvement to date, this post will focus on our plans to leverage the Direct Project standards to solidify a network of health participants.
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March 21, 2011
With today’s Office of the National Coordinator announcement celebrating a major milestone of the Direct Project and the excitement Direct Project generated at HIMSS11, we will be sharing a series of posts about this exciting new approach to solving a variety of issues facing healthcare. This first post focuses on the key essentials you need to know about Direct Project, along with a historical account of the collaboration between Cerner and other industry partners that helped bring Direct Project from concept to reality.
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