Lorraine Fernandes

The recent announcements by the federal government of $547 million in grants to facilitate health information sharing at the state level is like Spring hitting the information exchange landscape.

Between 13 percent and 35 percent of physicians would not meet the current definition of an "eligible provider" (EP) under the proposed meaningful use rules now being finalized by government health IT policymakers.

Over the last few years, federal and state health IT policymakers have paid little attention to the problem of managing provider identities.

The case for provider registries and directories