HIT Standards Committee meets: Washington, DC, Aug. 20, 2009
This post updated on August 24, 2009 to carry reports on the meeting.
Scheduled update on HIT Policy Committee and its Workgroups; Reports on Standards Committee’s Clinical Quality, Clinical Operations, Privacy & Security Workgroups. Recommendations from three Workgroups, with some modifications suggested at the meeting, were approved as recommendations to ONC, and a new subcommittee on adoption/implementation issues was approved.
Official Agenda and Reports.
–John Halamka, vice chair of HIT Standards Committee, reported highlights on August 20, 2009, on his blog Life as a Healthcare CIO.
–Diana Manos of HealthcareIT News’s report on August 20, 2009 is headlined “SNOMED CT will be required by 2015 for bonuses under economic recovery law.”
–Joseph Goedert’s report on August 21, 2009, in HealthData Management was headlined “HIE Data Standards Get Initial Approval,” and listed the primary content exchange standards and primary vocabulary standards.