A HITSP Town Hall

Today at 2pm, I'll be running a HITSP Town Hall public webinar about ARRA, health information exchange, and standards.

Here are a few resources I'll reference:

My Slides

The approved HIT Standards Committee Clinical Quality Standards Matrix

The approved HIT Standards Committee Clinical Operations Standards Matrix

The approved HIT Standards Committee Security and Privacy Matrix

The approved HIT Policy Committee Meaningful Use Matrix

The approved HIT Policy Committee HIE priorities which are:

2011
Lab results delivery
ePrescribing
Claims and eligibility checking
Quality & immunization reporting

2013
Registry reporting and reporting to public health
Electronic ordering
Health summaries for continuity of care
Receive public health alerts
Home monitoring
Populate PHRs

2015
Access comprehensive data from all available sources
Experience of care reporting
Medical device interoperability

All of these materials have been transmitted from the HIT Policy and Standards Committees to ONC where they are being used to write the regulations which will be issued by HHS on December 31, 2009.