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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…)
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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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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…)
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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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Friday, February 26th, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA, HIT Standards Committee
On February 24th, the HIT Standards Committee held its tenth meeting in Washington, D.C. Dr. David Blumenthal, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, opened the meeting with an acknowledgment of how busy the ONC has been over the last few months, “not just on the rule writing front, but also on the grant making front.” Dr. Blumenthal told listeners that the next few months would mark announcements of additional programs, “designed to support the provider and patient community to make the best use of health IT and to build on the foundation of standards and certification criteria.” (more…)
Tags: FACA, HIT Standards Committee, Meeting Summary
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
The HIT Policy Committee gathered for its second meeting of the year on February 17th in Washington, DC. The majority of the meeting time was dedicated to discussing recommendations of the Meaningful Use Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and Standards and Certification Interim Final Rule (IFR). Four Committee workgroups presented recommendations for the existing criteria, to better enable the electronic health records (EHR) incentive program to achieve its objectives and facilitate progress toward the ultimate goal of improving health and health care of all Americans.
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