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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 | Posted by: Deven McGraw and Paul Egerman | Category: FACA
The Privacy & Security Tiger Team is currently considering policy recommendations to ensure that authentication “trust” rules are in place for information exchange between provider-entities (or organizations). We are currently evaluating these trust rules at the organizational level, and as such, our scope here does not include authentication of individual users of electronic health record (EHR) systems. For purposes of this discussion, authentication is the verification that a provider entity (such as a hospital or physician practice) seeking access to electronic protected health information is the one claimed, and the level of assurance is the degree of confidence in the results of an authentication attempt. (more…)
Tags: FACA, Privacy and Security
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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…)
Tags: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 | Posted by: John Lumpkin | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
The HITPC Governance Workgroup is charged with developing a set of recommendations on the scope and process of governance for the nationwide health information network, including measures to ensure accountability and oversight. The Workgroup will hold a hearing September 28th to gather input. For more information about the hearing, please visit http://healthIT.hhs.gov/FACAs. The Workgroup also welcomes written comments from the public on the questions it has asked hearing panelists to address. (more…)
Tags: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
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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…)
Tags: Enrollment Workgroup, FACA
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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…)
Tags: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
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Friday, June 18th, 2010 | Posted by: Deven McGraw | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
The HIT Policy Committee (HITPC) invites you to attend the Privacy and Security Tiger Team’s upcoming hearing on consumer choice technology. The Tiger Team is a workgroup which has been assigned the task of analyzing and providing recommendations on privacy and security issues on an expedited basis to the HITPC, and ultimately to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. (more…)
Tags: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 | Posted by: Joshua Seidman PhD | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
The meaningful use of patient-facing e-health applications has great potential to improve the quality and efficiency of health and health care. Particularly for people with chronic conditions, research demonstrates that patient activation, chronic care self-management, and shared decision making with their clinicians can have a substantial impact on effectively managing their health. (more…)
Tags: health IT, HIT Policy Committee, meaningful use
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 | Posted by: Paul Tang | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee, Strategic Framework
This post is now closed for comments. We appreciate your input on the Strategic Framework. Your comments will be reviewed by the Workgroup and considered as it prepares its final draft.
The Health IT Policy Committee’s Strategic Plan Workgroup was charged to develop recommendations to ONC for consideration as it updates the 2008 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. The workgroup, with input from the full policy committee and the public, has produced a draft, which will be the subject of a listening session on April 6. The draft Framework is posted for public comment. (more…)
Tags: FACA, ONC, Strategic Framework
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA, HIT Standards Committee
On March 24th, the HIT Standards Committee held a meeting in Washington, DC. To begin, Elizabeth Johnson, Implementation Workgroup member and Tenet Healthcare Corporation’s Vice President of Applied Clinical Informatics, gave an update from the Implementation Workgroup Report on the Implementation Starter Kit Hearing. (more…)
Tags: FACA, HIT Standards Committee, Meeting Summary, NHIN, ONC
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
On March 17th, the HIT Policy Committee held a meeting in Washington, DC. Dr. Blumenthal opened the meeting with a few words about the criticality of the work to come: “Every issue on the agenda today is fascinating and complex and important….You continue to be the foundation for a lot of the inspiration and direction of the Office of the National Coordinator and federal HIT policy.” (more…)
Tags: HIT Policy Committee, Meeting Summary
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