It was developed under the auspices of the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC),[1] and now managed by a non-profit industry coalition called Sequoia Project (formerly HealtheWay).
One of the latest goals is to increase the amount of onboarding information about the NwHIN to prospective vendors of health care systems.
[citation needed] The OID, issued by the ONC, allows the individual health care system or vendor to receive and send messages to trusted entities within the NwHIN through an interface such as Mirth Connect or a custom-built Java UI.
Access Paths to the System:[6] An open source software package is available that implements the NwHIN architecture from CONNECT.
[7] Twenty-two Cooperative members, including seven federal agencies using the CONNECT gateway, participated in testing and demonstrations in 2008.
[1] and the NwHIN operational entity will be known as the eHealth Exchange which will be facilitated by the non-profit Sequoia Project (formerly Healtheway), Inc. a membership-based corporation.