The August HIT Standards Committee

The August HIT Standards Committee focused on the work ahead to accelerate interoperability.   It’s no longer about Meaningful Use, it’s about Meaningful healthcare information exchange.  I offered my opinion about the work ahead.  ONC is in the middle of regulation writing for Meaningful Use Stage 3, so the standards work of the next 10 weeks is not going to be incorporated into the NPRM. Regulation is not the only way that health IT standards are defined, selected, or adopted by industry.Learning from Stage 2, it’s critical that we decouple regulation writing from creating test procedures and scripts for certification.  I’m confident that our upcoming standards work will result in implementation guides and certification criteria outside the initial NPRM process.   Also, it’s important to remember that the NPRM is a proposal.   If the final rule needs to incorporate the standards work of the next few months, HITSC can recommend specific standards in its formal review of the NPRM.All of the presentations at the August meeting explored different aspects of interoperability.Jacob Reider offered opening remarks, reflecting on the timeline and staging of the work ahead, including the transition of workgroups to a new structure that will make us more agileSteve Posnack presented an update specifically focusing on the new Standards Implementation and Testing Environment that enables robust testing of interoperability including CCDA, QRDA...
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