title: Speeding decisions. Social security's information exchange program.
abstract: The Social Security Administration has plenty of reasons to streamline its records request process-more than 15 million reasons each year, in fact. That's why it has been pioneering information exchange projects with the private sector, including use of the Nationwide Health Information Network.
authors.affiliation: Division of Health Information Technology, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Social Security Administration, USA. kitt.winter@ssa.gov
authors.forename: Kitt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Winter
authors.forename: Bob
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hastings
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D033181:Information Dissemination; D014481:United States; D019131:United States Social Security Administration