Aneesh Chopra, Charles Jaffe of HL7, Consultant Clay Shirky Add News Posts to ONC Blog
In preparation for today’s November 19, 2009 HIT Standards Committee meeting, three posts went up this morning on ONC FACA Blog:
Aneesh Chopra Reflects on Progress to Date & What is to Come
Over 200 posts came in on open forum of FACA Blog, and Chopra gives much needed direction to organize future posts: “Our original intention was to seek public input on the work of the HIT Standards Committee to “pull forward” adoption. We identified seven topics (Standards, Interoperability, Vocabularies, Privacy, Security, Quality and Implementation Case Studies) to help frame the discussion. If you would like to comment on these seven topics, please start your comment by identifying the topic to which you are responding (i.e. “Vocabularies. Drawing from my experiences …”). Your self-categorization will help us to better organize and utilize your feedback.”

Two Articles on Real World Experience Published on Chopra post
Jaffe of HL7 Proposes Free Licensing of HL7
“H7 Proposal Reduces Barriers to HIE”
Charles Jaffe, CEO of HL7 writes “We have submitted a proposal to HHS that would allow the licensing of HL7 intellectual property (including the standards and the supporting technology) free of charge for use in the United States.”

Clay Shirky, Consultant
“What will make the difference in getting standards right for broadest meaningful use?”
Shirky concludes his article “Imagining a network simple enough that a small practice can participate in basic transactions has the downside of being less than perfect. It will not deliver a Big Bang, in which participants suddenly operate with complete technical flexibility and semantic clarity. In place of perfection, however, a minimally necessary approach to standards would have one significant upside: it might actually work.”