[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 5, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 368-369]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-31347]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology; HIT Standards 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 Standards Committee's Workgroups: Clinical
Operations, Clinical Quality, Privacy & Security, and Implementation
workgroups.
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.
Date and Time: The HIT Standards Committee Workgroups will hold the
following public meetings during the month of January 2010: January
21st Clinical Operations' Vocabulary Task Force, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m./
Eastern Time; January 26th Implementation Workgroup, 10 a.m. to 12
p.m./Eastern Time; January 26th Privacy & Security Workgroup, 3 p.m. to
5 p.m./Eastern Time; and January 28th Clinical Quality Workgroup, 2
p.m. to 4 p.m./Eastern Time.
Location: All workgroup meetings will be available via webcast;
visit http://healthit.hhs.gov for instructions on how to listen via
telephone or Web. 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 impact 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., clinical operations standards, clinical
quality standards, privacy and security standards, and implementation
activities. 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
pubic 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
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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. No. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App. 2).
Dated: December 30, 2009.
Judith Sparrow,
Office of Programs and Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E9-31347 Filed 1-4-10; 8:45 am]
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