Privacy & Security Policy Workgroup
of HIT Policy Committee
The new Privacy & Security Policy Workgroup foimed by the HIT Policy Committeee will work in coordination with the Privacy & Security Workgroup of the Standards Committee. Below is draft of workgroup’s basic charge and members as presented in HIT Policy Committee on December 15, 2009. Excerpted from ONC Web site.

Charge – DRAFT
“To make recommendations to the Health IT Policy Committee on privacy and security policies and practices that will help build public trust in health information technology and electronic health information exchange. Specifically, the workgroup will seek to address complex privacy and security challenges through the development of proposed solutions and approaches that enhance privacy and security while also facilitating the appropriate access, use and exchange of health information to improve health outcomes.”

Workgroup Members
Deven McGraw, Chair
Center for Democracy & Technology

Rachel Block, Co-Chair
NYS Department of Health

Dixie Baker, SAIC
Peter Basch, Provider
A. John Blair, Provider
Marianna Bledsoe, NIH
Joyce DuBow, American Association of Retired Persons
Paul Egerman, Consultant
Judy Faulkner, Epic, Inc.
Justine Handelman, Blue Cross Blue Shield
Gayle Harrell, Consumer Representative/Florida
John Houston, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Mike Klag, Johns Hopkins University, Public Health
Terri Shaw, Children’s Partnership
Latanya Sweeney, Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Tang, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Paul Uhrig, SureScripts
David Wanser, NDIIC
Kathleen Connor, MicroSoft