June 14: First Meeting for New Enrollment Workgroup:
Office of Nat’l Coordinator for Health IT
Excerpted from June 4, 2010 email:
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has organized a new Enrollment workgroup (subcommittee) under the auspices of the HIT Policy Committee.

This new workgroup is established to respond to a section of the Affordable Care Act, which asks the HIT Policy and HIT Standards Committees to come up with a set of standards which would facilitate enrollment in Federal and state health and human services programs, including offerings by new health insurance exchanges.

This might include standards for:
–Electronic matching across state and Federal data;
–Retrieval and submission of electronic documentation for verification;
–Reuse of eligibility information;
–Capability for individuals to maintain eligibility information online; and
–Notification of eligibility.

The Enrollment Workgroup will be chaired and co-chaired by Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer, and Sam Karp, California Health Care Foundation, respectively.  Membership is currently being determined.

The Enrollment Workgroup will hold its first public meeting on Monday, June 14, 2010, at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center, 775 12th Street, NW, Washington, DC, noon to 5 pm/EDT. See the ONC Website (http://healthit.hhs.gov/FACAs) for details.
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Click here to go directly to the Enrollment Workgroup page on ONC site.