[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 77 (Thursday, April 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 22399]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-9694]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
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, Quality Measures, Governance,
Adoption/Certification, 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 May 2011: May 2nd Meaningful Use
Workgroup, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m./ET; May 3rd Meaningful Use Workgroup in-
person meeting, location--TBD, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m./ET; May 4th Privacy &
Security Tiger Team, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m./ET; May 5th Quality Measures
Workgroup, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m./ET; May 10th Meaningful Use Workgroup,
9 a.m. to 12 p.m./ET; May 13th Meaningful Use Workgroup hearing,
location--TBD, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m./ET; May 16th Privacy & Security Tiger
Team, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m./ET; May 19th Quality Measures Workgroup hearing,
location--TBD, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m./ET; and May 20th Meaningful Use
Workgroup, 10 a.m. to 1 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, quality measures, 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: April 12, 2011.
Judith Sparrow,
Office of Programs and Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2011-9694 Filed 4-20-11; 8:45 am]
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