tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852684919029181544.post7833993130315109789..comments2024-03-21T22:09:25.626-07:00Comments on Advanced Health Information Exchange Resources: HIT Standards and Policy CommitteesAhierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13398190978662246852noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852684919029181544.post-57123901434541386662009-05-09T15:42:00.000-07:002009-05-09T15:42:00.000-07:00At the conference call Blumenthal announced appoin...At the conference call Blumenthal announced appointments to the two advisory committees created under the stimulus legislation. The Health Information Technology Policy Committee will recommend policies for developing national “infrastructure” for exchanging health information in systems that are “interoperable” and “talk” to each other. The committee will also advise on “standards for the secure and private exchange of patient medical information.”<br /><br />The second is the HIT Standards Committee, which will make recommendations to Blumenthal on certification criteria for IT systems and the use of health information.<br /><br />“The certification process is under review,” said Blumenthal when asked about the future role of “CCHIT,” the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, which has overseen certification efforts thus far. “There was a complicated committee structure in the past,” he said, calling the decision by Congress to create the two new committees “a wise one.” Blumenthal said he doesn’t see the two new committees as duplicative of previous advisory panels, describing the new committees as having a broad policy role.<br /><br />Blumenthal also said he expects to announce in late spring or early summer the details of a $2 billion grant program to help develop a health IT workforce, to foster use of health IT to improve public health activities such as disease monitoring and tracking of pharmaceutical side effects, and “geographic exchange” of data across organizations and offices of individual doctors.Ahierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13398190978662246852noreply@blogger.com