1. Collaborative Direct-- Status Update December 6, 2013 Don Jorgenson Inpriva, Inc.

2. NwHIN Direct and NwHIN Exchange Meet -- CONNECT -- CONNECT is a flexible open-source platform for health information exchange. Any healthcare entity – federal agencies or private-sector health organizations or networks – who want to exchange health information securely over the Internet, intra- or extra-organizationally, can use CONNECT to do so. - CONNECT Software Architecture Documentation

3. NwHIN Direct and NwHIN Exchange Meet -- CONNECT -- cont. CONNECT enables health information exchange via the technical specifications of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN). NwHIN Direct is a set of standards, policies, and services that enable simple, secure transport of health information between authorized care providers. The NwHIN Direct Project specifications enable standards-based health information exchange in support of core Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures, including communication of summary care records, referrals, discharge summaries and other clinical documents in support of continuity of care and medication reconciliation, and communication of laboratory results to providers. NwHIN Exchange is a collection of standards, protocols, specifications, and services that enable the secure exchange of health information over the internet. The NwHIN Exchange specifications provide methods to perform universal patient lookup, document discovery, and retrieval, and is often used to facilitate exchange between organizations such as health information exchanges (HIEs) or large integrated delivery networks (IDNs). - CONNECT Software Architecture Documentation

4. NwHIN XDD Conceptual Architecture

5. Nationwide Direct Directory (NwDD) -- Component Candidates -- NwDD-related OSS components might include:  Consumer side (with respect to NwDD Services)  Embeddable client components (e.g. embeddable HTML5 capable browser)  HISP access APIs, SDKs  Web portal client  …  Source side  Tools and reference implementations to facilitate DD Source publishing  …  Direct Directory tier  HPD+/ModSpec/esMD Query Interface  Provided Source Interfaces: LDAP, CSV, DSML/HPD+, Restful  Meta-directory aggregation components  Reference implementations to facilitate regional- or community-aggregated Sources  …

6. NwHIN Direct/Exchange --Proposed Project Scope --  NHIN Direct Reference Implementation  CONNECT Version 4+ Implementation  HPD+, ModSpec, S&I, esMD Provider Directory Reference Implementations  Extensible Direct Directory (XDD) Reference Implementation  Direct/Exchange Component Projects  …