Health IT Journey - Stories from the Road


Aneesh Chopra Invites You to Tell Us About Opportunities and Challenges facing HIT Implementation
Friday, February 12th, 2010 | Posted by: Aneesh Chopra | Category: FACA, Implementation Workgroup

We are pleased to announce that on March 8th, the Implementation Workgroup of the Health IT Standards Committee will hold a public hearing on “Implementation Starter Kit: Lessons and Resources to Accelerate Adoption” to help providers achieve meaningful use by, in part, surfacing examples of effective meaningful use implementation preparation. (more…)

Aneesh Chopra Reflects on Progress to Date & What is to Come
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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Real World Experience: Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD
Real World Experience:  Clay Shirky

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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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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