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The Federal Health Architecture (FHA) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health It (ONC) are ending support for the CONNECT open source software project in September 2019. As part of ending the support for CONNECT, the FHA and ONC will no longer maintain or update the CONNECT Wiki after September 6, 2019 at 5:00 PM EDT.
As an open source project, the CONNECT software code and community resources, including this Wiki, can be used, adopted and implemented by any interested organization, but the government will no longer be involved and therefore will not endorse or verify the quality of the resources previously managed by the CONNECT Community under FHA’s guidance.
Welcome to CONNECT!
CONNECT is an open source software and community that promotes IT interoperability in the U.S. healthcare system. CONNECT enables secure, electronic health data exchange among healthcare providers, insurers, government agencies, and consumer services.
While CONNECT was initially developed by federal agencies to support their health-related missions, it is now available to all organizations and can be used to set up health information exchanges and share data using nationally-recognized interoperability standards.
The diverse group of users and beneficiaries of health information exchange of course includes code contributors – groups of developers who use CONNECT and want to contribute bug fixes and new features back into the source code, and to the greater community.
CONNECT Governance and Open Source Contributions
CONNECT is a product with a governance structure and process. Open source contributions are welcome, and the CONNECT development team and governance body will work to incorporate contributions or make them available in accordance with our release plan. CONNECT is released 2-4 times per year, and each release meets the needs identified by the CONNECT Change Control Board (CCB), which sets priorities for CONNECT functionality and bug fixes to align with nationwide Health IT data exchange programs and pilots. In addition, the CCB sets priorities to ensure CONNECT supports the widely used Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange and Direct specifications.
While the CCB sets out the release plan for CONNECT, features created by open source contributors can make their way into the CONNECT release itself or be available as external (or, in some cases, integrated) features/extensions. And, as expected, bug reports and bug fixes from the community are encouraged and welcomed. See /wiki/spaces/CONNECTWIKI/pages/8585727 for details.
Recent CONNECT Presentations and Updates
CONNECT Deep Dive presented on January 30, 2019 - CONNECT Deep Dive 01-30-19.pptx
Links
Instructions to access the CONNECT source code | |
The CONNECT issue tracking system | |
User and developer forums for CONNECT | |
CONNECT Wiki Home | Community wiki for CONNECT |
Testing procedures for CONNECT |