[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 148 (Tuesday, August 2, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 46297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-19550]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
HIT Standards Committee's Workgroup Meetings; Notice of Meetings
AGENCY: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of meetings.
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This notice announces forthcoming subcommittee meetings of a
federal advisory committee of the Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology (ONC). The meetings will be open to
the public via dial-in access only.
Name of Committees: HIT Standards Committee's Workgroups:
Clinical Operations, Vocabulary Task Force, Clinical Quality,
Implementation, Privacy & Security Standards Workgroups, and Summer
Camp Power Teams.
General Function of the Committee: To provide recommendations to
the National Coordinator on standards, implementation
specifications, and certification criteria for the electronic
exchange and use of health information for purposes of adoption,
consistent with the implementation of the Federal Health IT
Strategic Plan, and in accordance with policies developed by the HIT
Policy Committee.
Date and Time: The HIT Standards Committee Workgroups will hold
the following public meetings during August 2011: August 4th
Surveillance Implementation Guide Power Team, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m./
ET; August 4th, ePrescribing Discharge Meds Power Team, 2:30 p.m. to
3:30 p.m./ET; August 9th, Clinical Operations Workgroup, 10 a.m. to
11:30 a.m./ET; August 10th Implementation Workgroup, 12 p.m. to 2
p.m./ET; August 23rd Clinical Operations Workgroup, 10 a.m. to 11:30
a.m./ET; ePrescribing Discharge Meds Power Team, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00
p.m./ET; and August 25th Implementation Workgroup, 9 a.m. to 12
p.m./ET.
Location: All workgroup meetings will be available via webcast;
visit http://healthit.hhs.gov for instructions on how to listen via
telephone or Web. Please check the ONC Web site for additional
information as it becomes available. Contact Person: Judy Sparrow,
Office of the National Coordinator, HHS, 330 C Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20201, 202-205-4528, Fax: 202-690-6079, e-mail:
[email protected]. Please call the contact person for up-to-date
information on these meetings. A notice in the Federal Register
about last minute modifications that affect a previously announced
advisory committee meeting cannot always be published quickly enough
to provide timely notice.
Agenda: The workgroups will be discussing issues related to
their specific subject matter, e.g., clinical operations vocabulary
standards, clinical quality, implementation opportunities and
challenges, and privacy and security standards activities. If
background materials are associated with the workgroup meetings,
they will be posted on ONC's Web site prior to the meeting at http://healthit.hhs.gov.
Procedure: Interested persons may present data, information, or
views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the
workgroups. Written submissions may be made to the contact person on
or before two days prior to the workgroups' meeting dates. Oral
comments from the public will be scheduled at the conclusion of each
workgroup meeting. Time allotted for each presentation will be
limited to three minutes. If the number of speakers requesting to
comment is greater than can be reasonably accommodated during the
scheduled open public session, ONC will take written comments after
the meeting until close of business on that day.
If you require special accommodations due to a disability,
please contact Judy Sparrow at least seven (7) days in advance of
the meeting.
ONC is committed to the orderly conduct of its advisory
committee meetings. Please visit our Web site at http://healthit.hhs.gov for procedures on public conduct during advisory
committee meetings.
Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App. 2).
Dated: July 25, 2011.
Judith Sparrow,
Office of Programs and Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2011-19550 Filed 8-1-11; 8:45 am]
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