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Monday, June 18th, 2012 | Posted by: Joshua Seidman, PhD, Director, Meaningful Use, ONC | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee, HIT Standards Committee
ONC’s federal advisory committees (FACAs) held a full-day hearing on June 8 (written testimony can be found here) to explore how patient-generated health data (PGHD) might be incorporated into Meaningful Use (MU) of EHRs for Stage 3 of the EHR Incentive Programs. Some examples of PGHD are data from a patient’s personal health record, data from a blood glucose monitor, or information about a patient’s functional status. Three FACA workgroups hosted the hearing: The Health IT Policy Committee’s MU and Quality Measurement Workgroups, and the Health IT Standards Committee’s Consumer Engagement Power Team. (more…)
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 | Posted by: Judy Murphy, RN, Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy | Category: FACA
 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is very proud of the two federal advisory committees that we support: The Health IT Policy and the Health IT Standards Committees. Created by the HITECH Act to provide input on the policies and technologies needed to improve health and care, the Committees, as noted in a recent blog post by David Kibbe and Brian Klepper  , are an invaluable resource. Through their open meetings and hearings, they promote transparency in ONC policy development and build support and ownership among key private-sector stakeholders in ONC policies and programs. They are a direct channel for private and public sector health IT leaders and the public to offer input into U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) processes for developing policies and regulations. (more…)
Tags: FACA, Federal Advisory Committee Act
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 | Posted by: Avinash Shanbhag | Category: FACA
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 for Health Information Technology (ONC) on federal health information technology standards issues to enable secure health information exchange using Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN). The ONC has defined the NwHIN as “the set of standards, services and policies that enable secure health information exchange over the Internet”. (more…)
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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…)
Tags: FACA, HIT Standards Committee
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 | Posted by: Deven McGraw and Paul Egerman | Category: FACA
The Privacy and Security Tiger Team is continuing its efforts to flesh out a comprehensive privacy and security policy framework for electronic health information exchange. The framework is intended to build on current law (HIPAA, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and is based on the fair information practice principles articulated by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in its “Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework for Electronic Exchange of Individually Identifiable Health Information” (first released on December 15, 2008). (more…)
Tags: FACA, Privacy and Security
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Monday, April 18th, 2011 | Posted by: Marc Probst and Larry Wolf Usability Hearing Co-Chairs | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
Electronic health record (EHR) usability is the topic of this week’s Health IT Policy Committee hearing on April 21 in Washington, D.C. It’s an important topic that draws both a great deal of attention and diverse responses from the health information technology (health IT) stakeholders. Among other things, usability affects the efficiency of providers, the safety of the care they provide, and the cost of training and support. (more…)
Tags: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011 | Posted by: Joshua Seidman, PhD, Director, Meaningful Use, ONC | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
The Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC) held six public hearings in 2010 related to the future definition of “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs). The hearings included testimony from several dozen stakeholders. The HITPC also received dozens of public comments via this blog. All of this input helped to inform its many hours of public deliberations regarding the future vision of MU (e.g., stage 3) as well as the interim stepping stone of stage 2 MU that will set expectations for 2013 and 2014. (more…)
Tags: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
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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…)
Tags: FACA, HIT Standards Committee
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Monday, December 6th, 2010 | Posted by: David Lansky Chair of the Quality Measures Workgroup | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
The HIT Policy Committee (a federal advisory committee that advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) formed the Quality Measures Workgroup to recommend new clinical quality measures to leverage the evolving health IT infrastructure. The Quality Measures Workgroup is developing recommendations on clinical quality measures for Stage 2 and Stage 3 Meaningful Use. The Workgroup was divided into five tiger teams to focus on the following measure domains: Patient and Family Engagement, Clinical Appropriateness/Efficiency, Care Coordination, Patient Safety, and Population and Public Health. (more…)
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 | Posted by: John Lumpkin | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
The HIT Policy Committee’s (HITPC) Governance Workgroup (WG) worked intensely over two months to begin to flesh out a framework and options for governance of the nationwide health information, to help ONC meet its mandate to establish governance mechanism. Following our October 19th recommendations [PDF - 95 KB] on key principles for sound governance and “what needs to be governed,” we moved on to “who should govern and how.” We asked for public input and got 234 comments with important suggestions that shaped our thinking and were shared with the HITPC November 20th. We especially noted the strong requests for strict privacy and security protections, which the WG wholeheartedly supports. Thank you to all who contributed your ideas. (more…)
Tags: HIT Policy Committee
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