The December HIT Standards Committee

The December HIT Standards Committee included a review of the draft Federal Health IT Strategic Plan , recommendations about identity management from the Transport and Security Workgroup, an overview of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, and a discussion of upcoming task force work as we all prepare for the publication of the ONC interoperability roadmap and the Meaningful Use Stage 3 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.The meeting began with an introduction from Jon White, the new Acting Deputy National Coordinator.   We all know Jon from his leadership of IT initiatives at AHRQ.   He brings new energy and insight to ONC.   A great choice.I summarized the agenda for the day but also told the group about the Argonaut Project, to clear up any misunderstanding.   The leadership of HL7 wanted to be responsive to work of the JASON task force and ensure HL7 had the necessary standards/implementation guides to support the emerging demand for query/response interoperability.    HL7 needed some additional funding to produce the deliverables by mid-2015.   A cross section of stakeholders passed the hat to provide HL7 extra funding.   Since we’re helping to accelerate JASON deliverables, we thought that those supporting HL7’s work could call themselves the Argonauts.The Argonaut goal, which is complementary to other projects already in progress like the S&I Framework Data Access Framework (DAF) effort and the Healthcare Services Platform...
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