ONC Blog Opening Public Forum: 
Pulling Forward the Benefits of Healthcare IT
http://healthit.hhs.gov/blog/faca
From first post on ONC FACA Blog http://healthit.hhs.gov/blog/faca from Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, and chair of Implementation Workgroup, on October 29, 2009, as your blogger is sitting in same conference room in DC where workgroup is meeting : “The public hearing draws to a close this afternoon but we will continue the conversation through an Online Forum over the next two weeks. Thanks to Committee Member Cris Ross for his leadership on this effort. Given the breadth of interests, we have arranged a series of Committee Member blog posts to begin the dialogue, starting with HIT Standards Committee Vice-Chair John Halamka’s summary of our work to date, which will post on Friday. We will concurrently enable ongoing discussion threads on the following topics:

“1) Proposed Standards (General Discussion)
2) Interoperability
3) Vocabularies
4) Privacy
5) Security
6) Quality
7) Implementation Case Studies (Your Story – the good, bad and in-between)

“We have also enabled a “voting” feature on submissions to allow you – the public – an opportunity to emphasize points raised in a given post. Our goal is to harness the shared wisdom of our community to inform the work of the HIT Standards Committee in the weeks and months ahead.

“The tight schedule of this process is designed to ensure that your ideas inform the HIT Standards Committee at its November 19th meeting. However, your ongoing feedback on our efforts is also encouraged via written submission or public comment at any of the subsequent monthly meetings of the HIT Standards Committee.”

By the way, Chopra has promoted the ONC blog address at least 6 times, if not more.

For the ONC blog go to  http://healthit.hhs.gov/blog/faca
Go to e-Healthcare Marketing for previous post about ONC blog.
For documents from Oct 29, 2009 Implementation Workgroup, see prior post in e-Healthcare Marketing.