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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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Thursday, February 18th, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee
The HIT Policy Committee gathered for its second meeting of the year on February 17th in Washington, DC. The majority of the meeting time was dedicated to discussing recommendations of the Meaningful Use Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and Standards and Certification Interim Final Rule (IFR). Four Committee workgroups presented recommendations for the existing criteria, to better enable the electronic health records (EHR) incentive program to achieve its objectives and facilitate progress toward the ultimate goal of improving health and health care of all Americans.
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Tags: FACA, Federal Advisory Committee Act, HIT Policy Committee
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | Posted by: Aneesh Chopra | Category: FACA, HIT Standards Committee, Implementation Workgroup
Please note: This post by the HIT Standards Committee’s Implementation Workgroup is now closed for comment. Monitor this blog for more posts from the FACA committees and its workgroups as issues develop. Also, please visit the Health IT Buzz Blog to join other Health IT related conversations.
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The Online Health Forum launched on October 28th on the FACA Blog to elicit comments and opinions on your Health IT adoption experience (or your plans for EHR adoption). Thank you for your active participation, with nearly 200 posts to date and over 10,000 “hits.” True to the spirit of our Open Government philosophy, many of you extended the conversation throughout a number of more prominent health IT blogs, including John Halamka, Adam Bosworth, Sean Nolan, Wes Rishel, Bob Coffield, and Brian Ahier, among others.
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Tags: FACA, Federal Advisory Committee Act, HIT Standards Committee, ONC
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Monday, November 9th, 2009 | Posted by: Dr. Marc Overhage | Category: FACA, HIT Standards Committee
Please note: This post by the HIT Standards Committee’s Implementation Workgroup is now closed for comment. Monitor this blog for more posts from the FACA committees and its workgroups as issues develop. Also, please visit the Health IT Buzz Blog to join other Health IT related conversations.
As the HIT Standards Committee and its various Workgroups listen to the experience and advice of practitioners, standards experts, clinical system vendors and technological wizards and contemplate what recommendations to make to the Office of the National Coordinator, we often turn to look at what works in the real world as an anchor. One of the earliest principles the Committee embraced is that the standards being recommended should be in actual use – to be not only adoptable but adopted.
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Tags: FACA, Federal Advisory Committee Act, HIT Standards Committee, ONC
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009 | Posted by: Aneesh Chopra | Category: HIT Standards Committee, Implementation Workgroup
Please note: This post by the HIT Standards Committee’s Implementation Workgroup is now closed for comment. Monitor this blog for more posts from the FACA committees and its workgroups as issues develop. Also, please visit the Health IT Buzz Blog to join other Health IT related conversations.
Today, the Health IT Standards Committee within the Department of Health and Human Services will begin an unprecedented effort to get the public’s view on how our work might “pull forward” the benefits of healthcare information technology (IT). Specifically, we’re interested in uncovering new strategies to accelerate the adoption of health IT standards. This effort began with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, calling for recommendations on standards to promote safe, secure, healthcare information exchange.
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Tags: FACA, Federal Advisory Committee Act, health IT, HIT Standards Committee
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA
Please note: This post by the HIT Standards Committee’s Implementation Workgroup is now closed for comment. Monitor this blog for more posts from the FACA committees and its workgroups as issues develop. Also, please visit the Health IT Buzz Blog to join other Health IT related conversations.
Welcome to the new Federal Advisory Committee Blog! Since many of you may be unfamiliar with Federal Advisory Committees (FACAs) and their role at ONC, I wanted to give you some background and a preview of what you can look forward to on this blog.
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Tags: FACA, Federal Advisory Committee Act, health IT, HIT Policy Committee, HIT Standards Committee, ONC
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