Category: Update On HIT Policy and Standards Committees

jingemi
Last week the Federal Register (April 29, 2009) contained a Notification of the Establishment of the HIT Policy Committee and HIT Standards Committee. I had previously posted about the creation of these committee and recommended suggested members.
More information will be made available via the “new” Health Information Technology website of the Office of […]

jingemi
On April 17, 2009, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued guidance on the technology requirements to render protected health information (PHI) “unusable, unreadable or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals, as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) which is a part of the American […]

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a href=”http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/uploaded_images/MAR09EmblemARRA.jpg” onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}”img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/uploaded_images/MAR09EmblemARRA.jpg” style=”cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 116px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 116px;” //aJohn Halamka at a href=”http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/”Life as a Healthcare CIO/a provides a good overview of the a href=”http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2009/03/timeline-for-arra-technology-provisions.html”timeline and deadlines/a for the health information technology portions under the a href=”http://www.recovery.gov/”American Recovery […]

jingemi
a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/uploaded_images/MAR09EmblemARRA.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 116px; height: 116px;” src=”http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/uploaded_images/MAR09EmblemARRA.jpg” alt=”” border=”0″ //aJohn Halamka at a href=”http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/”Life as a Healthcare CIO/a provides a good overview of the a href=”http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2009/03/timeline-for-arra-technology-provisions.html”timeline and deadlines/a for the health information technology portions under the a href=”http://www.recovery.gov/”American Recovery and […]

Martin Trussell
The Thursday, March 13 Federal Register (a href=”http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-5391.pdf”74 Fed Reg 10743/a) contained a notice for submitting nominees to the new committees created under ARRA-HITECH (stimulus bill) for developing health information technology standards and policy. The two commitees will be called the HIT Standards Commitee and HIT Policy Commitee. Details on these committees […]

John Goodman
Today I am attending the a href=”http://www.worldcongress.com/agendaOverview.cfm?confCode=HL09003amp;level=insideamp;agendaID=328″World Health Care Congress2nd Annual Leadership Summit on Consumer Connectivity/a in Carlsbad, CA. Good presentations and discussion with those in attendance. You can follow the conference via Twitter ata href=”http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22WHCC2%22″ #WHCC2/a or get a href=”http://ekive.blogspot.com/2009/02/world-health-care-congress-summit-on.html”live blogging at EKIVE by Mark Schrimshire/a using Cover It Live. br […]