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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…)
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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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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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, 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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Monday, October 25th, 2010 | Posted by: John Lumpkin | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
The Governance Workgroup (Workgroup) is developing recommendations on governance mechanisms for the nationwide health information network. The Workgroup identified overarching objectives, key principles and core functions for governance in its Preliminary Report and Recommendations on the Scope of Governance [PDF – 94 KB] presented to the HIT Policy Committee on October 20th. (more…)
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 | Posted by: Deven McGraw and Paul Egerman | Category: FACA
The Privacy & Security Tiger Team is currently considering policy recommendations to ensure that authentication “trust” rules are in place for information exchange between provider-entities (or organizations). We are currently evaluating these trust rules at the organizational level, and as such, our scope here does not include authentication of individual users of electronic health record (EHR) systems. For purposes of this discussion, authentication is the verification that a provider entity (such as a hospital or physician practice) seeking access to electronic protected health information is the one claimed, and the level of assurance is the degree of confidence in the results of an authentication attempt. (more…)
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
The Information Exchange Working Group (IE WG) of the Health IT Policy Committee has been charged with identifying and recommending solutions to barriers standing in the way of rapid nationwide adoption of health information exchange. The focus is both on barriers that prevent individual health care providers from efficiently and effectively conducting health information exchange transactions, as well as on obstacles that impede States and/or State Designated Entities from being effective enablers of health information exchange. (more…)
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