The July meeting of the HIT Standards Committee

The July meeting of the HIT Standards Committee included important discussions of certification for post acute care and behavior health applications, review of data segmentation for privacy,  analysis of provider directory standards, an update on the standards/interoperability framework projects, and a first look at the new subcommittee co-chairs of the Standards Committee.We started the meeting with a review of attestation data by Jennifer King. Jacob Reider reminded us not to judge the trajectory of the project based on the those who attested early.    The data indicates that the bulk of attestations were completed using just a few vendor products, implying that 2014 certified products from multiple vendors are not yet widely implemented.   I asked if any updates were available about the NPRM to offer more flexibility for stage 2 attestation.   HHS is still reviewing the comments, so there is no specific new information that the NPRM will be finalized and we all should continue our work on existing stage 2 criteria during this last federal quarter of 2014.We next heard from Larry Wolf about the multi-stakeholder effort to specify certification criteria for long term post acute care and behavioral health .  The motivation for this work is to create interoperability and standardization, bringing LTPAC/BH stakeholders into the same ecosystem as those providers participating in the meaningful use program.   Thus far LTPAC/BH vendors have ...

Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - July 16, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs