ONC issues RFI on NwHIN governance, lays framework for nonprofit entity

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has issued a request for information (RFI) on the mechanisms required for governance of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN), which ONC plans to spin off as a private, nonprofit entity next fall.

In a May 11 webinar of the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) University, Steven Posnack, director of ONC's federal policy division, outlined the RFI. The objectives of creating a NwHIN governance structure, he said, include:

• Making it more efficient for entities to exchange health information
• Avoiding potential conflicts between the disparate governance structures of state health information exchanges (HIEs)...