[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 51 (Wednesday, March 17, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12752-12753]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-5783]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology; HIT Policy Committee's Workgroup Meetings; Notice of
Meetings
AGENCY: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of Meetings.
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This notice announces forthcoming subcommittee meetings of a
Federal advisory committee of the Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology (ONC). The meetings will be open to
the public via dial-in access only.
Name of Committees: HIT Policy Committee's Workgroups: Meaningful
Use, Privacy & Security Policy, Strategic Plan, Adoption/Certification,
and Nationwide Health Information Infrastructure (NHIN) workgroups.
General Function of the Committee: To provide recommendations to
the National Coordinator on a policy framework for the development and
adoption of a nationwide health information technology infrastructure
that permits the electronic exchange and use of health information as
is consistent with the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and that
includes recommendations on the areas in which standards,
implementation specifications, and certification criteria are needed.
Date and Time: The HIT Policy Committee Workgroups will hold the
following public meetings during April 2010: April 6th Strategic Plan
Workgroup, 12 to 3 p.m./ET, a public listening session, details will be
posted on ONC Web site; April 8th Meaningful Use Workgroup, 10 a.m. to
12 p.m./ET; April 14th NHIN Workgroup, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m./ET; April 16th
Strategic Plan Workgroup, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m./ET; April 20th Meaningful
Use Workgroup hearing on Patient Engagement, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m./ET; April
26th Privacy & Security Policy Workgroup, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.; and April
30th Certification/Adoption Workgroup, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m./ET.
Location: All workgroup meetings will be available via webcast; for
instructions on how to listen via telephone or Web visit http://
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healthit.hhs.gov. Please check the ONC Web site for additional
information as it becomes available.
Contact Person: Judy 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] Please call the contact person
for up-to-date information on these meetings. A notice in the Federal
Register about last minute modifications that affect a previously
announced advisory committee meeting cannot always be published quickly
enough to provide timely notice.
Agenda: The workgroups will be discussing issues related to their
specific subject matter, e.g., meaningful use, the NHIN, privacy and
security policy, adoption/certification, or strategic planning. If
background materials are associated with the workgroup meetings, they
will be posted on ONC's Web site prior to the meeting at http://healthit.hhs.gov.
Procedure: Interested persons may present data, information, or
views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the workgroups.
Written submissions may be made to the contact person on or before two
days prior to the workgroups' meeting date. Oral comments from the
public will be scheduled at the conclusion of each workgroup meeting.
Time allotted for each presentation will be limited to three minutes.
If the number of speakers requesting to comment is greater than can be
reasonably accommodated during the scheduled open public session, ONC
will take written comments after the meeting until close of business on
that day.
If you require special accommodations due to a disability, please
contact Judy Sparrow at least seven (7) days in advance of the meeting.
ONC is committed to the orderly conduct of its advisory committee
meetings. Please visit our Web site at http://healthit.hhs.gov for
procedures on public conduct during advisory committee meetings.
Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App. 2).
Dated: March 11, 2010.
Judith Sparrow,
Office of Programs and Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2010-5783 Filed 3-16-10; 8:45 am]
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