HIT Standards Committee takes leap forward; on to next steps
Report roundup of Sept 15, 2009 meeting
Halamka details:”The Latest Deliverables from the HIT Standards Committee”
Updated matrix of 29 measures from Quality Committee, pivotal discussion about quality measurement reporting among five types of stakeholders with five types of data exchange , security recommendations, summary of clinical operations recommendations for meaningful use, and an overview of implementation guidance from HITSP, as reported by Committee vice-chair John Halamka in Life as a Healthcare CIO on September 15, 2009.
Federal panel okays EHR security, privacy standards
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT, reported that “The Health IT Standards Committee endorsed a set of security and privacy standards for electronic health record systems that it said would get progressively tougher without holding back wider health information sharing.” Mosquera also reported that Aneesh Chopra, Federal CTO, has been named chair of the new Adoption and Implementation workgroup, and would like to establish a baseline measure of current adoption.
Advisory Panel OKs Privacy Standards
Joseph Goedert of HealthData Management reports “The recommendations will help ONC and other officials of the Department of Health and Human Services as they develop rules to define meaningful use of EHRs and implement Medicaid and Medicaid incentive programs under the stimulus law.”
Standards panel gets into nitty-gritty of quality reporting
Bernie Monegain of Healthcare IT News reported ”The heads of the federal Health IT Standards Committee, Jonathan Perlin and John Halamka, moved the panel at its meeting this morning to the next phase of work – guidance for implementation.”
