Inpriva was founded in 2002 and has been an industry leader in adopting open standards and methods for secure transmission of PHI. It has been an active participant in the Direct Project and has advised many state, federal and international institutions in regard to security and electronic transmission of PHI. Inpriva was the first Health Information Service Provider in the nation to handle the transmission of live patient PHI between two different EHR systems using the Direct Project specifications. Originally developed for interoperable, secure messaging between healthcare providers and their business associates, Direct Project-compliant hDirectMail has been extended to support the needs of secure collaboration such as required by social services, judicial systems, public health services, patient engagement, population health monitoringâ€whenever private and confidential communication is required.