Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN): Scope of Activities

Core Services
Priority Areas (Use Cases)

In addition to core HIE services, the American Health Information Community (AHIC) work groups recommended a series of topics for uses cases that represent priority areas for the NHIN to advances.

The four NHIN Prototype Architectures were included core services and three AHIC priority areas/use cases:

• Consumer Empowerment - Registration and Medication History
• Electronic Health Record - Laboratory Result Reporting
• Biosurveillance - “ Connecting Clinical Care to Public Health

The NHIN Trial Implementations will each implement the core services and several new AHIC priority areas/use cases shaped the scope of the NHIN:

• Emergency Responder-Electronic Health Record
• Consumer Empowerment-Consumer Access to Clinical Information
• Medication Management
• Quality
• Personalized Healthcare
• Public Health Case Reporting
• Response Management
• Remote Consultation
• Remote Monitoring
• Referrals and Transfer of Care