HIT Standards Committee Implementation Workgroup
Meets in First Public Meeting: Oct 29, 2009
Aneesh Chopra chairs the first public meeting of the Implementation Workgroup of the HIT Standards Committee on October 29, 2009. “The HIT Standards Committee has inaugurated an Implementation Workgroup which is charged with bringing forward “real-world” implementation experience into the HIT Standards Committee recommendations, with special emphasis on strategies to accelerate the adoption of proposed standards, or mitigate barriers, if any. The Implementation Workgroup is holding a public hearing on the topic of Adoption Experiences on Thursday, October 29, 2009, in Washington, DC. We have organized a series of panels to address the issue.”

AGENDA  (pdf version)
Thursday, October 29, 2009, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m./Eastern

9:00 a.m. Call to Order/Roll Call – Judy Sparrow, Office of the National Coordinator
9:05 a.m. Welcome and Introduction – Aneesh Chopra, Chair, Implementation Workgroup
9:15 a.m. Non‐Healthcare Industries Panel – Moderator: John Halamka, HIT Standards Committee Co‐Chair
          Skip Best, Covisint
          Adam Bosworth, XML, SQL
          TBD, Salesforce.com [invited]
10:30 a.m. Providers Panel ‐ Moderator: Judy Murphy, HIT Standards Committee member
         Andy Wiesenthal, Kaiser Permanente (IDN)
         Dick Taylor, CMIO, Providence Health, Portland, OR (IDN)
         Rick Warren, VP/CIO, Allegiance Health, MI (Community Hospital)
         Lisa Bewley, VP/CIO, Regional West Medical Center, Scotts Bluff, NE (Community Hospital) 
         Louis Spikol, MD, from Allentown PA (Small Practice)
         Roland Goertz, MD/Waco, Texas (Small Practice)[invited]
12:00 p.m. BREAK
12:45 p.m. Vendors Panel – Moderator: Cris Ross, HIT Standards Committee member
        Rick Ratliff, SureScripts
        Arien Malec, Relay Health
        Sean Nolan, MicroSoft
        Girish Kumar, eClinical Works
        Ian McCrae, Orion Health [invited]
2:00 p.m. Quality Measures Panel – Moderator: David McCallie, HIT Standards Committee member
        Ralph Brindis, American College of Cardiology
        Richard Gliklich, CEO, Outcome Sciences
        Kepa Zubeldia, Ingenix [invited]
        Jesse Singer, NYC Health [invited]
3:00 p.m. Meeting Summary – Aneesh Chopra, Chair
3:30 p.m. Public Comment
4:00 p.m. Adjourn

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