As health data exchange efforts continue to gain momentum, use cases around direct secure messaging are also rising. These include enhanced data sharing for ePrescribing, ADT messaging, electronic case reporting, and COVID-19 vaccination efforts.

As highlighted in this EHR Intelligence article, this digital capability is a cornerstone of interoperability infrastructure across the country with DirectTrust driving the Direct Standard, which lays the foundation for direct secure messaging.

In addition, DirectTrust announced that it had acquired the assets of health IT consortium and certification body SAFE Identity, including its Trust Framework, in an effort to expand interoperability use cases for secure health data exchange.

DirectTrust has also created a new division, DirectTrust Identity, to house the SAFE Identity’s Trust Framework, which supports healthcare identity assurance and cryptography.

Along the lines of DirectTrust news, in March, RosettaHealth announced that it had achieved full accreditation through the DirectTrust™ Accreditation Program for Health Information Service Providers (HISPs).

Meeting all of the necessary security and privacy requirements, RosettaHealth’s HISPDirect solution provides customers with added assurance that patient data is completely safe. Much more than just Meaningful Use messaging, HISPDirect provides the flexibility and control for managing post-acute and chronic care with ADT event notifications, public and population data reporting, as well as replaces PDF images with electronic medical records.

“This re-accreditation reinforces our long-term commitment to security and privacy, which helps pave the way for breaking down today’s barriers of health data exchange,” said Buff Colchagoff, CEO of RosettaHealth, in this press release. “We look forward to our continued efforts to ensure that safe exchange of health data will continue to drive better care outcomes, while also reducing overall costs.”

As direct secure messaging continues to achieve wide-spread adoption and usage, we will likely see even more emerging use cases for how the secure sharing of patient data will further enhance care coordination.

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