The Health IT Standards Committee is charged with making recommendations to the National Coordinator for Health IT on standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for the electronic exchange and use of health information. Initially, the Health IT Standards Committee will focus on the policies developed by the Health IT Policy Committee’s initial eight areas.  Within 90 days of the signing of ARRA, the Health IT Standards Committee must develop a schedule for the assessment of policy recommendations developed by the Health IT Policy Committee, to be updated annually. In developing, harmonizing, or recognizing standards and implementation specifications, the Health IT Standards Committee will also provide for the testing of the same by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST).

The Health IT Standards Committee’s membership reflects a broad range of stakeholders, including providers, ancillary healthcare workers, consumers, purchasers, health plans, technology vendors, researchers, relevant federal agencies, and individuals with technical expertise on health care quality, privacy and security, and on the electronic exchange and use of health information.

Chair

• Jonathan Perlin, Hospital Corporation of America

Vice Chair

• John Halamka, Harvard Medical School

Members

• Dixie Baker, Science Applications International Corporation 
• Anne Castro, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
• Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer, OSTP  
• Christopher Chute, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
• Janet Corrigan, National Quality Forum
• John Derr, Golden Living, LLC
• Carol Diamond, Markle Foundation
• James Ferguson, Kaiser Permanente
• Steven Findlay, Consumers Union
• Linda Fischetti, Department of Veterans Affairs
• Douglas Fridsma, Arizona State University
• Cita Furlani, National Institutes of Standards and Technology
• C. Martin Harris, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
• Stanley M. Huff, Intermountain Healthcare
• Kevin Hutchinson, Prematics, Inc.
• Elizabeth O. Johnson, Tenet Healthcare Corporation
• John Klimek, National Council for Prescription Drug Programs
• David McCallie, Jr., Cerner Corporation
• Judy Murphy, Aurora Health Care
• Nancy J. Orvis, Director, Health Standards Participation, Department of Defense
• J. Marc Overhage, Regenstrief Institute
• Gina Perez, Delaware Health Information Network
• Wes Rishel, Gartner, Inc.
• Christopher Ross, MinuteClinic
• Richard Stephens, The Boeing Company
• Walter Suarez, Kaiser Permanente
• Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance
• James Walker, Geisinger Health System

Section 3003(b)(3) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 mandates that the Health IT Standards Committee develop and publish a schedule for the assessment of policy recommendations developed by the Health IT Policy Committee. This schedule shall be updated at least annually.

In anticipation of receiving recommendations originally developed by the Health IT Policy Committee, the Standards Committee has created three workgroups or subcommittees to analyze the areas of clinical quality, clinical operations, and privacy and security.

Schedule