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The Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HIT Policy Committee) was established
by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. The HIT Policy Committee makes recommendations to the HHS National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on a policy framework for the development and adoption of a nationwide health information infrastructure.
Public Health Data Standards Consortium’s active member Dr. Michael J. Klag, Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was recently appointed as a member to this committee.
The Health Information Technology Standards Committee (HIT Standards Committee) was established by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. The HIT Standards Committee makes recommendations to the HHS National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on HIT standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for the electronic exchange and use of health information.
The national Use Cases for the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) were identified by the American Health Information Community (AHIC) during 2005-2009. Interoperability specifications for these Use Cases have been developed by the Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP). These specifications identified health information technology standards to support electronic health information exchanges defined by the Use Cases.
The American Health Information Community is a federally-chartered advisory body, chartered in 2005 to advance efforts on the development of a Nationwide Health Information Network.
AHIC has defined priority areas (breakthroughs) and developed use cases. The use cases developed by AHIC are then used by HITSP to harmonize standards and develop interoperability specifications. In 2008 AHIC transitioned to the National e-Health Collaborative (NeHC).
Health Information Privacy and Security Collaboration has been created to address the privacy and security challenges that impede electronic health information exchanges. Thirty-four (34) participating State and Territorial teams assessed their laws, policies and practices with respect to health information privacy and security and developed implementation plans to address identified barriers.
HISPC Phase 1 (2006 - June 2007) goals were to:
- Identify both best practices and challenges
- Develop consensus-based solutions for interoperable electronic health information exchange (HIE) that protect the privacy and security of health information, and
- Develop detailed implementation plans to implement solutions.
HISPC Phase 2 (July - December 2007) focused on the implementation of State's plans.
HISPC Phase 3 (January 2008 - July 2009) focused on multi-state Collaboratives to develop common, replicable multi-state solutions. The table below lists the Collaboratives and the participating States and Territories:
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices was awarded a contract from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to establish and manage the State Alliance for e-Health, a consensus-based, executive-level body of state elected (and appointed) officials to collectively address state-level health information technology (health IT) issues and challenges to interoperable electronic health information exchange.
State Alliance for e-Health work was conducted through the following Taskforces:
- Health Information Protection
- Health Care Practices
- Health Information Communications and Data Exchange
- Privacy and Security
- Public Programs Implementation
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