“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is testing out metadata standards that state health information exchanges will use for patient information queries and personal health information data security.
ONC director Farzad Motashari announced late last week that Indiana and Montana will test metadata standards for information queries and data security through the fall. The agency asked for public comment on general metadata standards in a proposed rulemaking Aug. 9, but is moving ahead with testing in those two areas.”
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Sara Jackson, FierceHealthIT, 22 August 2011

