The Direct Project in Action

Houston's healthcare community is deploying a Direct Project pilot.

The Direct Project is all over HIMSS12, and really all over the country now. But it still carries controversy. When I found out that one of the Houston Health Information Exchange efforts had successfully launched a Direct Pilot, I simply had to do an interview. After all, here was software that I had contributed to as an open source project that was being deployed in my own backyard.

Jim Langabeer is the CEO of the newly renamed Greater Houston Healthconnect. I caught up with Jim at Starbucks and peppered him with questions about where Health Information Exchange (HIE) is going and what HIE looks like in Houston...