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White House to Set Up Health IT Task Force
Colleagues,
As reported in Federal Computer Week ... The White House will form an interagency task force to coordinate federal health information technology programs...
... The task force will be led by the Health and Human Services Department’s National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. David Blumenthal...
... The group is needed to facilitate President Obama’s health reform agenda and distributing $20 billion in economic stimulus law funding for health IT. Currently, lack of coordination among many councils and advisory groups is holding back progress...
... Existing interagency health IT groups would be dissolved to form a Government-wide Health IT Task Force for policy development, implementation, coordination and transparency. The task force would span DOD, the VA, the SSA, USDA, OPM and Commerce. Membership would be limited to those agencies because they are the primary agencies for federal health IT...
... the federal government's chief information officer and chief technology officer, will be vice-chairs of the task force...
... Immediate topics for discussion include the Federal Health Architecture, deployment of the Beacon Community program to highlight implementations of health IT in communities, coordinating privacy and security standards in the federal government and between federal and private stakeholders, and interoperability and health information exchange between federal and private health care providers...
Read on at: http://fcw.com/articles/2010/02/23/white-house-sets-up-interagency-...
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in Federal Computer Week ... The White House will form an interagency task force to coordinate federal health information technology programs...
... The task force will be led by the Health and Human Services Department’s National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. David Blumenthal...
... The group is needed to facilitate President Obama’s health reform agenda and distributing $20 billion in economic stimulus law funding for health IT. Currently, lack of coordination among many councils and advisory groups is holding back progress...
... Existing interagency health IT groups would be dissolved to form a Government-wide Health IT Task Force for policy development, implementation, coordination and transparency. The task force would span DOD, the VA, the SSA, USDA, OPM and Commerce. Membership would be limited to those agencies because they are the primary agencies for federal health IT...
... the federal government's chief information officer and chief technology officer, will be vice-chairs of the task force...
... Immediate topics for discussion include the Federal Health Architecture, deployment of the Beacon Community program to highlight implementations of health IT in communities, coordinating privacy and security standards in the federal government and between federal and private stakeholders, and interoperability and health information exchange between federal and private health care providers...
Read on at: http://fcw.com/articles/2010/02/23/white-house-sets-up-interagency-...
ENJOY!
CC
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