Health IT Journey - Stories from the Road


Call for Feedback on Health IT Strategic Framework
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 | Posted by: Paul Tang | Category: FACA, HIT Policy Committee, Strategic Framework

This post is now closed for comments.  We appreciate your input on the Strategic Framework.  Your comments will be reviewed by the Workgroup and considered as it prepares its final draft.

The Health IT Policy Committee’s Strategic Plan Workgroup was charged to develop recommendations to ONC for consideration as it updates the 2008 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. The workgroup, with input from the full policy committee and the public, has produced a draft, which will be the subject of a listening session on April 6.  The draft Framework is posted for public comment. (more…)

HIT Standards Committee 3/24: Meeting Summary
Thursday, April 1st, 2010 | Posted by: Judy Sparrow | Category: FACA, HIT Standards Committee

On March 24th, the HIT Standards Committee held a meeting in Washington, DC. To begin, Elizabeth Johnson, Implementation Workgroup member and Tenet Healthcare Corporation’s Vice President of Applied Clinical Informatics, gave an update from the Implementation Workgroup Report on the Implementation Starter Kit Hearing. (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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Real World Experience: Standards
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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A Blog to Support Transparency and Collaboration
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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