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HIT Standards Committee Implementation Workgroup 3/8: Hearing Summary
 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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Health IT Standards Committee’s Vocabulary Task Force Seeks Input on Subsets and Value Sets
 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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