What's Happening in Health IT

In This Issue

You may have noticed that the title of the listserv has changed from This Week on HealthIT.gov to What's Happening In Health IT. But the goal of the listerv remains the same – to make sure you have the information you need about what's happening with Health IT here at ONC.

Joint Federal Advisory Committee Meeting

At 9:30 am (EDT) Wednesday, Oct. 15, the Health IT Policy and Standards Committees will meet here in Washington, D.C. for their first ever joint meeting. We will be sharing an early draft of a Nationwide Roadmap for Interoperability building off the 10 year vision we issued in June. The meeting is just one milestone towards realizing a shared vision to create a nationwide roadmap that will help make sure that stakeholders can connect care, improve health, and develop the health IT system that can be part of the larger learning health system. The details about the meeting will be available on HealthIT.gov.

Putting the Person at the Center

Beginning at 9 am EDT Thursday, October 16, we and the Administration for Community Living are hosting a town-hall style workshop called Putting the Person at the Center: Integrating Plans for Long-Term Services and Supports and Health Care Delivery through Health Information Technology. We are looking for your ideas about how to enable a person-centered approach for planning and delivering both long-term services and supports and health delivery information. We welcome comments on how to improve communications and collaboration across community based organizations and health care partners through health IT. The in-person session is full, but you can still attend online.Learn more if you are interested.

ONC Welcomes 12 New Health IT Fellows!

We are pleased to announce our newest class of Health IT Fellows!

Twelve champions from all over the nation are joining the team of over 50 on-the-ground health care leaders to leverage health IT in their communities. The Fellows work to improve and protect people's health wherever they live, work, learn, play, or receive care through the use of health IT. Please join us in welcoming our newest class of Health IT Fellows!

Federal Advisory Committee Schedule Week of Oct. 13

Tuesday
At 2pm (all times Eastern) the Health IT Committee's (HITPC) Privacy and Security Workgroup meets. Check out this link for agenda, meeting slides and dial-in info.

Friday
The HITPC Advanced Health Models and Meaningful Use Workgroup meets at noon. Agenda and other meeting materials should be posted here prior to the meeting.

Report to Congress on HITECH

ICYMI, we submitted the 2014 report to Congress on progress made on the HITECH Act, including health IT adoption, health information exchange, and use of electronic health information to advance better care and better health. Read the blog post from Karen DeSalvo and Matt Swain to see where we have been and where we are going.

Promoting Innovation and Competition

To meet our charge of enabling the electronic use and exchange of health information that will support consumers and facilitate better quality and more efficient care, on Tuesday we announced a collaboration with the Federal Trade Commission. Read the ONC blog post by Jodi Daniel and Karson Maher and the FTC's companion post by Tara Isa Koslov, Markus Meier, and David R. Schmidt.

Comment on 2014 Edition Release 2 Test Procedures

We are now accepting comments on the draft test procedures for the 2014 Edition Release 2 Certification Criteria. You can find them at http://www.healthit.gov/EHR-Cert-2014-R2.Your comments will be posted on our ONC Public comment JIRA project page. Make sure your voice is heard.

Open Test Method Pilot Program Updates

In July, we launched the Open Test Method Development Pilot Program so, with your input, we could create new test methods for two 2014 Edition EHR certification criteria. The pilot program ends in October, so there is still time to get involved. Learn more from the blog post by our own Seon Davis.