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On the heels of funding issues with CONNECT last fall and winter, the Alembic Foundation got its start. Alembic forked HHS’ Federal Health Architecture CONNECT source code and worked with a number of partners to start adding critical features. They released their initial Aurion 4.0 Open Source Health Information Exchange Software last May (with some key enhancements)...

CONNECT is an open source software solution that supports health information exchange at the local & national level. CONNECT is a reference implementation of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) standards and governance, helping ensure health information exchanges are compatible with other private and state level exchanges being set up throughout the country.

On June 10th, CONNECT version 3.2 was released – a reasonable hiatus since the September 15th version 3.1 release – especially considering the loss of CONNECT stalwarts David Riley and Vanessa Manchester to the Alembic Foundation...

The Aurion Project has announced the heir apparent to Connect 3.1:

Aurion is an open source health information exchange platform that implements the Nationwide Health Information Network standard services and content specifications. Aurion is the first project chartered through the Alembic Foundation. This software enables the secure exchange of interoperable health information among diverse organizations using a wide variety of technologies.

Organizations implementing Aurion as a part of their health information exchange strategy gain the benefits of implementing nationally-recognized standards...