The Health IT Standards Committee, a federal advisory committee, provides recommendations on health IT standards issues to the National Coordinator for his consideration. Therefore, a formal transmittal letter must transmit the recommendations from the Standards Committee to the National Coordinator in his role as an HHS official. Once the FACA has been satisfied (i.e., a transmittal letter sent from the Standards Committee’s Chair to the National Coordinator in his governmental role), the National Coordinator can then determine the disposition of the recommendations.
The HIT Standards Committee provided recommendations regarding the development of the Certification Process for Stage 2 MU. These recommendations were approved on November 16.
The HIT Standards Committee endorsed recommendations of its Privacy and Security Workgroup on security-related certification criteria, standards and implementation specifications for EHR certification. These recommendations are complementary to those endorsed on September 28.
On September 28, The HITSC provided recommendations regarding standards and specifications for the nationwide health information network.
The HIT Standards Committee made recommendations to the National Coordinator/HHS on: 1) e-prescribing of discharge medications; 2) public health content exchange standards and implementation specifications; and 3) draft certification criteria and associated standards and implementation specifications for EHR technology certification to support the next stage of meaningful use.
The HIT Standards Committee made recommendations to the National Coordinator/HHS on the assignment of code sets to clinical concepts [data elements] for use in quality measures.
The HIT Standards Committee’s Clinical Quality Measures Workgroup and Vocabulary Task Force jointly made the recommendations which were approved by the HITSC at the August 17, 2011, meeting. The recommendations have been transmitted to the National Coordinator.
On June 22, 2011, the HIT Standards Committee endorsed recommendations on newer versions of the standard code sets adopted by the Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) in subpart B of Part 170 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
The HIT Standards Committee made recommendations to the National Coordinator/HHS on the use of digital certificates, specifically recommendations on the requirements and evaluation criteria for digital certificates.
The HIT Standards Committee's Privacy & Security Standards Workgroup's recommendations were approved by the HITSC at the April 2011 meeting, and the recommendations have been transmitted to the National Coordinator.
The HIT Standards Committee made recommendations to the National Coordinator/HHS on standards for governance, funding and infrastructure of controlled vocabularies, value sets and vocabulary subsets to be used primarily to further interoperability between providers and the systems they deploy as defined by the various stages of Meaningful Use Objectives.
The HIT Standards Committee’s Clinical Operations Workgroup/Vocabulary Task Force recommendations were approved by the HITSC at the April 2010 meeting, and the recommendations have been transmitted to the National Coordinator.
The HIT Standards Committee has made recommendations to the National Coordinator on (1) the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding CMS’ incentive program for the meaningful use of EHRs; and (2) the Interim Final Rule (IFR) on Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for EHRs. The recommendations, from the Clinical Operations, Clinical Quality, and Privacy & Security Workgroups, were approved by the HIT Standards Committee at its February 2010 meeting. The HIT Standards Committee recommendations have been transmitted to the National Coordinator.
To make public comments on ONC’s IFR or CMS’ NPRM go to www.regulations.gov.
