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Creating a Vision for Engaging Patients and Families Through the Meaningful Use of Health IT

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 | Posted by: Joshua Seidman, PhD, Director, Meaningful Use, ONC | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee

The meaningful use of patient-facing e-health applications has great potential to improve the quality and efficiency of health and health care. Particularly for people with chronic conditions, research demonstrates that patient activation, chronic care self-management, and shared decision making with their clinicians can have a substantial impact on effectively managing their health. (more…)

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Posted in FACA, HIT Policy Committee | 72 Comments »

HIT Standards Committee: Pulling Forward the Benefits of Healthcare IT

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
Posted in HIT Standards Committee, Implementation Workgroup | 120 Comments »

A Blog to Support Transparency and Collaboration

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA

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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