Chief Privacy Officer for Health IT Joy Pritts
announces new Privacy & Security Task Force
Per slide (ppt slide set) from May 26, 2010 Privacy and Security Workgroup of Health IT Standards Committee, ONC Chief Privacy Officer “Joy Pritts (had) talked to Workgroup about ONC’s plan to create a Privacy and Security Task Force, under HITPC (HIT Policy Committee), to work intensively over the summer to define privacy and security policy to be applied consistently across ONC projects and programs.”
“–Workgroup encouraged involvement of technical experts in Task Force and offered support.
“–Privacy and Security Workgroup efforts to consider and recommend standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria will abate pending policy decisions from the new Task Force.”

Howard Anderson, Managing Editor of HealthcareInfoSecurity.com reported ” ‘it became quite apparent that a number of workgroups were working on little pieces of this at the same time, and the issues were overlapping, and we didn’t really want to proceed in that fashion very much longer,’ Pritts told a meeting of ONC’s Health Information Technology Policy Committee on May 26.”