Standards panel aligns interoperability specs with ARRA
Added July 24, 2009: – Healthcare IT News reported by Editor Bernie Monegain that ”The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel has approved new interoperability specifications for electronic health records, data exchange and architecture that align with the federal government’s stimulus package for healthcare IT.”
Standards Mapped to ‘Meaningful Use’ by HIT Standards Committee
John Halamka, MD, vice chair of the committee, reports July 21, 2009, on his blog, Life as a Healthcare CIO, the deliverables of the HIT Standards Committee and its workgroups on Clinical Quality, Clinical Operations, and Privacy and Security with links to the report and a matrix for each workgroup. These documents add critical details to the plans, including “the approach used to specify the 27 performance measures for 2011 which support meaningful use.”
HITS staff writer Jean DerGurhian reports on quality updates.
FederalComputerWeek’s Alice Lipowiscz reports on Clinical Quality Workgroup’s recommendations for “31 performance and data capture measures,” including “26 benchmarks already endorsed by the National Quality Forum.”
Rough Draft Transcript Of July 21, 2009 HIT Standards Committee produced by Brain Ahier.
Health IT Standards Committee Meeting July 21, 2009: Meeting Agenda and Presentations
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