HHS’s next HIE ‘code-a-thon’ travels West
By Mary Mosquera
Thursday, October 22, 2009
The Health & Human Services Department will host a second open source “code-a-thon” next month to give software programmers on the West coast a chance to dissect – and upgrade – the Connect software suite.
Connect is software developed by a group of federal agencies that enables organizations to swap health data according to standards worked out via the nationwide health information network (NHIN) project.
The November code-a-thon will take place Nov. 19-20, at Portland State University in Portland, Ore.
A code-a-thon gives open source programmers the opportunity to manipulate and write code together and to fix technical issues.
Earlier this month, HHS’ Federal Health Architecture office, which oversees the Connect project, released the latest update of the software. The latest version included stronger information security and more enterprise services, the office said.
According to the agenda on the Connect Web site, programmers will work on automated installation, portability to other platforms and security controls.
In August, 100 programmers and developers participated in the first code-a-thon at HHS headquarters.
More information abut the Connect project and the Code-a-thon is online.
