[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 6 (Monday, January 10, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 1432]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-189]
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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 Tiger Team, Enrollment,
Governance, Adoption/Certification, PCAST Report, and Information
Exchange 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 January 2011: January 6th
Meaningful Use Workgroup, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m./ET; January 7th PCAST
Report Workgroup, 4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m./ET; January 13th Information
Exchange Workgroup, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m./ET; January 18th Provider
Directory Task Force, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m./ET; January 18th Privacy &
Security Tiger Team, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m./ET; January 20th Meaningful
Use Workgroup, 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m./ET; January 24th Provider
Directory Task Force, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m./ET; and January 28th
Information Exchange 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://healthit.hhs.gov. Please check the ONC Web site for additional
information or revised schedules 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, information
exchange, privacy and security, enrollment, governance, or adoption/
certification. 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 workgroup's 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: January 3, 2011.
Judith Sparrow,
Office of Programs and Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2011-189 Filed 1-7-11; 8:45 am]
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