Healthcare IT News November 5, 2019
The cost-efficiency and ease of use of Direct message protocols seems to be catching on across healthcare, as the number of organizations using it continues to increase. There were more than 197 million Direct Exchange transactions during the third quarter of 2019 – three times as many as during the same quarter last year.
WHY IT MATTERS
That’s according to the latest report from DirectTrust, the non-profit collaborative of more than 120 vendor, provider and government organizations seeking to advance the secure messaging protocol as a key driver of interoperability.
DirectTrust is also seeing continuing and sustained growth in the number of DirectTrust network users, addresses, and transactions, it said, as more provider organizations see it as an easy to deploy...