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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…)
Tags: Enrollment Workgroup, HIT Policy Committee, HIT Standards 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…)
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 | Posted by: Joshua Seidman PhD | Category: HIT Policy Committee
The meaningful use (MU) of electronic health records (EHRs) has great potential to improve the quality, efficiency and safety of health care. If we are not careful, however, benefits may disproportionately accrue to those best positioned to implement and use new technologies. That could have the unintended consequence of growing health, health care and health information disparities. (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 3rd, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: HIT Policy Committee
On April 21st, the HIT Policy Committee held a meeting in Washington, DC. To begin, Paul Tang, the Chair of the Committee and the Chief Medical Information Officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and George Hripcsak, the Co-Chair of the Committee and a Department of Biomedical Informatics Chair at University of Columbia, gave a Meaningful Use Workgroup update. Dr. Tang began a brief discussion of the Patient/Consumer Engagement hearing held on Tuesday 4/20 in Washington DC. (more…)
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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…)
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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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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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Tags: FACA, Federal Advisory Committee Act, HIT Policy Committee
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA
Please note: This post by the HIT Standards Committee’s Implementation Workgroup is now closed for comment. Monitor this blog for more posts from the FACA committees and its workgroups as issues develop. Also, please visit the Health IT Buzz Blog to join other Health IT related conversations.
Welcome to the new Federal Advisory Committee Blog! Since many of you may be unfamiliar with Federal Advisory Committees (FACAs) and their role at ONC, I wanted to give you some background and a preview of what you can look forward to on this blog.
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Tags: FACA, Federal Advisory Committee Act, health IT, HIT Policy Committee, HIT Standards Committee, ONC
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