Well there’s goes the name and it was a good name and who can remember Aurion, but maybe I will in time as so many things change so fast today just one more item to tax my brain. The article says an upgrade is available and bugs were fixed….no 
this didn’t have bugs did it <grin>. Of course everything has bugs today and medical devices included, something the FDA wishes would go away about now I think.
Aetna is right in there with their subsidiary today Medicity announcing the availability of the Direct project and more is to be released on Aurion and the Direct project relationship at a later date. In other Aetna news they have has a game for you to play in the meantime so you can contribute some scraped data and become healthy with this game <grin>. 
Aetna to Acquire Medcity-Health IT Connectivity Vendor-Former CEO Takes Position on Board at Boeing
See the second link for the release date of the game in case the Direct project is not what you are looking for.
Aetna To Offer Online Game Social Game For Personal Wellness- Joins Humana As They Have An Online Game Called FamScape
Back on topic if you are looking for the update and new site, here it is and you can download the latest version here. I guess the private section as mentioned here with not supporting it maybe found their own plates overloaded today. It’s a good idea but name change right now is not really good for keeping the momentum going and maybe there was not a choice there.
As of March of 2011 though there were 60 organizations that had signed up for the Direct Project so I guess more later and maybe this is having the same kind of fate as Dossia PHRs, still there but how much use we don’t know. 
The websites states there will be more information later on how this affects the Direct project and more code will need to be added to meet the Direct Project specs.
Direct Project Announces Over 60 Healthcare and Health IT Organizations Committed to the Roll Out
We are going through mobile, desktop and web based steroid software production and changes and heck nobody can keep it straight. I used to enjoy reporting on software but now it’s a pain in the neck for the most part as everyone is so fragmented, and so is the software <grin>.
If this is open source why in the heck didn’t they just post over at SorceForge.Net instead of maintaining another big website like everyone else does with open source software, easier to find over there too and people will stumble upon it too when indexed with other software…oh well…BD
The foundation copied the latest version of CONNECT, re-branded the software as Aurion 3.1, and started working on upgrades (see story). Now, multiple bugs have been fixed and additional functionality added in a new version, called Aurion 4.0.
The government's plan was that a private sector organization would eventually take control of the initiative. That didn't happen, so two former CONNECT staff members in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently formed the Alembic Foundation to continue development work and promote Aurion.
Open Source HIE Software Upgraded
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