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Thursday, May 12th, 2011 | Posted by: Judy Murphy and Liz Johnson Co-Chairs HIT Standards Implementation Workgroup | Category: FACA, HIT Standards Committee
I. Background
The Health Information Technology Standards Committee (HITSC) is a federal advisory committee that advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) on federal HIT standards issues, including electronic health record (EHR) certification criteria and implementation specifications for the meaningful use of EHRs for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. Eligible professionals (EP) and eligible hospitals (EH) who seek to qualify for incentive payments under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs are required by statute to use Certified EHR Technology. Once certified, Complete EHRs and EHR Modules can be used by EPs and EHs, or be combined, to meet the statutory requirement for Certified EHR Technology. (more…)
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Friday, December 10th, 2010 | Posted by: Jonathan Perlin MD and John Halamka MD Chair Co-Chair HIT Standards Committee | Category: FACA, HIT Standards Committee
Standards & Interoperability Framework Initiatives
The Health IT Standards Committee (HITSC) would like your thoughts and comments on new initiatives being considered by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) through the Standards and Interoperability (S&I) Framework. (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, 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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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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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…)
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Monday, March 15th, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA, HIT Standards Committee, Vocabulary Task Force
On March 8th, the HIT Standards Committee Implementation Workgroup held a hearing in Washington, DC, on strategies, opportunities, and challenges to the implementation of EHRs. Aneesh Chopra, the Chair of the Implementation Workgroup and the White House Chief Technology Officer, opened the session by setting the goals of the meeting – listening to success stories from panelists in the public and private sectors that could spur meaningful use of EHRs. (more…)
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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…)
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010 | Posted by: Jamie Ferguson | Category: HIT Standards Committee, Vocabulary Task Force
This post is now closed for comments. We appreciate your input.
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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