The HIT Policy Committee’s (HITPC) Governance Workgroup (WG) worked intensely over two months to begin to flesh out a framework and options for governance of the nationwide health information, to help ONC meet its mandate to establish governance mechanism. Following our October 19th recommendations [PDF - 95 KB] on key principles for sound governance and “what needs to be governed,” we moved on to “who should govern and how.” We asked for public input and got 234 comments with important suggestions that shaped our thinking and were shared with the HITPC November 20th. We especially noted the strong requests for strict privacy and security protections, which the WG wholeheartedly supports. Thank you to all who contributed your ideas. (more…)
