[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 109 (Tuesday, June 8, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 32472]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-13683]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology; HIT Standards Committee; Notice and Publication of
Committee Recommendations to the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology
AGENCY: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of committee recommendations and invitation for public
input.
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SUMMARY: This notice publishes recommendations made by the HIT
Standards Committee (Committee) at its public meeting on April 28,
2010, and invites public input on the recommendations at the
Committee's next meeting on June 30, 2010. The Committee is a federal
advisory committee to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology (ONC).
Name of Committee: HIT Standards Committee.
General Function of the Committee: To provide recommendations to
the National Coordinator on standards, implementation specifications,
and certification criteria for the electronic exchange and use of
health information for purposes of adoption, consistent with the
implementation of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, and in
accordance with policies developed by the HIT Policy Committee.
Sections 3003(b)(4) and (e) of the Health Information Technology for
Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act requires ONC to publish the
Committee's recommendations to the National Coordinator in the Federal
Register and on ONC's Web site.
Contact Person: Judith Sparrow, Office of the National Coordinator,
HHS, 330 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20201, 202-205-4528, Fax: 202-
690-6079, e-mail: [email protected].
Recommendations: During the April 28, 2010 meeting, the Committee's
recommendations focused on standards for governance, funding and
infrastructure of controlled vocabularies, value sets and vocabulary
subsets to be used primarily to further interoperability between
providers and the systems they deploy as defined by the various stages
of Meaningful Use Objectives. The recommendations may be found at
http://healthit.hhs.gov/standardscommittee.
Procedure: Individuals wishing to make comments on the Committee's
April 28, 2010, recommendations may present oral comments at the
Committee's next meeting on June 30, 2010, from approximately 1 p.m. to
2 p.m., e.t., at the Marriott Hotel Washington, 1221 22nd Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20037. Comments will be limited to two (2) minutes per
person. A separate notice announcing this meeting has been published in
the Federal Register and provides additional information.
Authority: Sections 3003(b)(4) and (e) of Health Information
Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, Title XIII
of Division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(ARRA), Pub. L. No. 111-5.
Dated: June 2, 2010.
Judith Sparrow,
Office of Programs and Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2010-13683 Filed 6-7-10; 8:45 am]
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