Halamka describes HITSP’s efforts to address ARRA/HITECH
As part of a Health IT double-header  on August 27, 2009, John Halamka, MD, MS, HITSP Chair, held an digital Town Hall meeting about HITSP’s work in relation to the law, ARRA, and the process being conducted by Office of National Coordinator (ONC), and the HIT Standards and Policy Committees.

HITSP is the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel, a public/private collaboration setup to help achieve ubiquitous interoperability between healthcare software applications throughout a local to national health information network. Within an excellent overview of the process going on at the national level, Halamka’s slide show for the Town Hall describes the new HITSP Tiger Team’s development of  EHR-Centric Interoperability Specifications (IS 107) to meet ARRA’s requirements.
For slide set referenced above and documents referenced below, see Halamka’s Life as a Healthcare CIO blog.
Archived Webinar: Go to the August section of HITSP’s 2009 Archived Webcasts page and click on the Audio (wmv) file, which is actually complete with slides and audio. 

HIT Policy and Standards Committee Recommendations/Matrixes
In addition to slide set for the Town Hall, Halamka posted each matrix approved last week by the HIT Standards Committee  from its three workgroups on Clinical Quality, Clinical Operations, and Security and Privacy. He also posted documents approved the prior week by the HIT Policy Committee: Meaningful Use Matrix and HIE priorities. Halamka, of Harvard Medical School, serves as vice chair of the HIT Standards Committee, along with HIT Standards Committee chair Jonathan Perlin of  Hospital Corporation of America.

(The other half of the double-header, a Webcast by ONC about the grant application process for Regional Extension Centers, was going on at the same time as the Town Hall, with a reported 1,000 people watching/listening. Both sessions will be archived.)