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Thursday, February 18th, 2010 | Posted by: Jamie Ferguson | Category: HIT Standards Committee, Vocabulary Task Force
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On February 23, 2010, the Vocabulary Task Force established by the Clinical Operations Workgroup of the Health IT Standards Committee will hold a public hearing on “Vocabulary Subsets and Value Sets” as facilitators of meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). The Task Force’s working definitions of vocabulary subsets and value sets are available here.
As background, the Standards and Certification Interim Final Rule (IFR) was released on December 31st, 2009, along with a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Meaningful Use. You can find both of these documents, and other useful information about the rules, here: http://healthit.hhs.gov/standardsandcertification.
The Task Force invites public comment by March 5, 2010 on a series of questions about vocabulary subsets and value sets.
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Tags: FACA, HIT Standards Committee, IFR
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA, HIT Standards Committee
On January 20th, the HIT Standards Committee held its January meeting in Washington, DC. Jonathan Perlin, the Chair of the HIT Standards Committee, initiated the meeting with a quote from Dr. David Blumenthal’s recent New England Journal of Medicine article, “Information is the lifeblood of modern medicine. Health information technology is destined to be its circulatory system.” This quote set the tone for the rest of the day, in which committee members examined how standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria — as seen in the recently released Interim Final Rule (IFR) and meaningful use Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) – can transform healthcare.
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | Posted by: Aneesh Chopra | Category: FACA, HIT Standards Committee, Implementation Workgroup
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The Online Health Forum launched on October 28th on the FACA Blog to elicit comments and opinions on your Health IT adoption experience (or your plans for EHR adoption). Thank you for your active participation, with nearly 200 posts to date and over 10,000 “hits.” True to the spirit of our Open Government philosophy, many of you extended the conversation throughout a number of more prominent health IT blogs, including John Halamka, Adam Bosworth, Sean Nolan, Wes Rishel, Bob Coffield, and Brian Ahier, among others.
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Tags: FACA, Federal Advisory Committee Act, HIT Standards Committee, ONC
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Monday, November 9th, 2009 | Posted by: Dr. Marc Overhage | Category: FACA, HIT Standards Committee
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As the HIT Standards Committee and its various Workgroups listen to the experience and advice of practitioners, standards experts, clinical system vendors and technological wizards and contemplate what recommendations to make to the Office of the National Coordinator, we often turn to look at what works in the real world as an anchor. One of the earliest principles the Committee embraced is that the standards being recommended should be in actual use – to be not only adoptable but adopted.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009 | Posted by: Dr. John Halamka | Category: FACA, HIT Standards Committee
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Since May of 2009, a Federal Advisory Committee called the HIT Standards Committee (HITSC) has been identifying standards that will help stakeholders select and meaningfully use electronic health record (EHR) systems.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009 | Posted by: Aneesh Chopra | Category: HIT Standards Committee, Implementation Workgroup
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Today, the Health IT Standards Committee within the Department of Health and Human Services will begin an unprecedented effort to get the public’s view on how our work might “pull forward” the benefits of healthcare information technology (IT). Specifically, we’re interested in uncovering new strategies to accelerate the adoption of health IT standards. This effort began with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, calling for recommendations on standards to promote safe, secure, healthcare information exchange.
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