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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
The Information Exchange Working Group (IE WG) of the Health IT Policy Committee has been charged with identifying and recommending solutions to barriers standing in the way of rapid nationwide adoption of health information exchange. The focus is both on barriers that prevent individual health care providers from efficiently and effectively conducting health information exchange transactions, as well as on obstacles that impede States and/or State Designated Entities from being effective enablers of health information exchange. (more…)
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Monday, August 9th, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: HIT Policy Committee
The final rules on the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) are out, and they are expected to help improve Americans’ health, increase safety and reduce health care costs through expanded use of EHRs. The regulation defines the “meaningful use” objectives that providers must meet to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments. This commences a five-year national initiative to adopt and meaningfully use electronic health records for health care. (more…)
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee, HIT Standards Committee
On July 30, the HIT Policy Committee’s Enrollment Workgroup held a Listening Session for the public to respond to the Workgroup’s draft recommendations and suggest issues for future consideration. (more…)
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
On July 21, the HIT Policy Committee held a meeting in Washington, DC. Following Dr. Blumenthal’s opening remarks Paul Tang approved the minutes from the previous meeting and reviewed the upcoming agenda. (more…)
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Monday, July 12th, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: HIT Standards Committee
On June 30, the HIT Standards Committee held a meeting in Washington, DC. The meeting began with opening remarks made by Committee Chair, John Perlin and John Halamka, Harvard University. (more…)
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Monday, July 12th, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: HIT Policy Committee
On June 25, the HIT Policy Committee held a meeting in Washington, DC. Following Dr. Blumenthal’s opening remarks Paul Tang approved the minutes from the previous meeting and reviewed the upcoming agenda. (more…)
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Monday, June 21st, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: HIT Policy Committee, HIT Standards Committee
In January 2010, at the White House Forum on Modernizing Government, President Obama noted that, “Improving the technology our government uses isn’t about having the fanciest bells and whistles on our websites – it’s about how we use the American people’s hard-earned tax dollars to make government work better for them.” Now, six months later, the newly formed Enrollment Workgroup of the Health IT Policy and Standards Committees has begun the discussion of how to bring eligibility determination and enrollment in health and human services programs into the 21st century. (more…)
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Friday, June 4th, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: HIT Standards Committee
On May 26th, the Health IT Standards Committee held a virtual meeting to discuss ongoing communications, alignment of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and current privacy and security standards activities. Chair, Jonathan Perlin opened the meeting. (more…)
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: HIT Policy Committee
On May 19th, the HIT Policy Committee held a meeting in Washington, DC. Following Dr. Blumenthal’s opening Paul Tang reviewed the agenda.Together, Paul Tang and Jodi Daniel presented results of the Strategic Plan Recommendations from the Strategic Plan Workgroup: Health IT Strategic Framework. (more…)
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Monday, May 10th, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: HIT Standards Committee
On April 28th, the HIT Standards Committee held a meeting in Washington, DC. To begin, Dr. Doug Fridsma spoke on behalf of Aneesh Chopra, Implementation Workgroup chair and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Chief Technology Officer, giving an update from the Implementation Workgroup Report on their desire to make toolkits, accelerators, and best practices available via the Web. Dr. David Blumenthal, the National Coordinator for Health IT, offered comments on health reform legislation asking members to start developing standards for exchanging eligibility information, “Think of this in the same way that we are facilitating better healthcare through standards and interoperability, we have the opportunity to facilitate better coverage through standards and interoperability” (more…)
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