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PCAST Workgroup Struggles With DEAS Concept

03/31/2011 By Anthony Guerra Leave a Comment

At its final meeting — during which Chair Paul Egerman sought to put the finishing touches on its upcoming report to the HIT Policy Committee — some members of ONC’s PCAST Report Workgroup chafed at their narrow mandate of only suggesting ways the report’s principles could be integrated with Meaningful Use, not commenting on its […]

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Filed Under: Meaningful Use, Meaningful Use Stage 2 Tagged With: Bill Stead, Dixie Baker, Mark Rothstein, Paul Egerman, PCAST, PCAST Report Workgroup, Wes Rishel

Privacy & Security Tiger Team Hunts Balance

06/16/2010 By Anthony Guerra Leave a Comment

The HIT Policy Committee’s new Privacy and Security Tiger Team workgroup is striving to establish the requirements that intermediaries in personal health information (PHI) message transactions will be subject to. Under HIPAA, parties which have access to PHI are deemed covered entities (CEs), required to establish business associate agreements (BAAs) which obligate them to handle the data in certain ways. With the rise of health information exchange under the HITECH Act, the Office of the National Coordinator created the Tiger Team to provide it with guidance in governing health information organizations (HIOs) — or third-party intermediaries which have varying degrees of involvement with the messages.

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Filed Under: Privacy/Security Tagged With: Arien Malec, Deven McGraw, Dixie Baker, HIPAA, HIT Policy Committee, HIT Policy Committee Privacy and Security Tiger Team, NHIN Direct, Paul Egerman, Wes Rishel

Gartner: Certification Cannot Dictate Buying Decision

02/28/2010 By Anthony Guerra Leave a Comment

Certification and vendors guarantees to achieve it are little help when choosing products that will qualify for HITECH payments, according to a recently published research note entitled, “The Limits of Certification and Guarantees in Buying Electronic Health Records in the U.S.” by Gartner VP and Distinguished Analyst Wes Rishel, a member of the HIT Standards […]

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Filed Under: General Interest/Housekeeping Tagged With: Gartner, Wes Rishel

Standards Committee Struggles for Balance

02/25/2010 By Anthony Guerra Leave a Comment

Instead of recommending small adjustment to the Standards and Certification Interim Final Rule (IFR), the 10th meeting of the federal HIT Standards Committee was consumed by a fundamental, philosophical debate of just how specific the group should be in its regulations, and the nature of the regulatory process itself. “We have to balance when to […]

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Filed Under: Standards Tagged With: Christopher Chute, David Blumenthal, HIT Standards Committee, Jodi Daniel, John Halamka, ONC, Wes Rishel

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