[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 158 (Tuesday, August 16, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 50736]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-20815]
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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,
and Privacy & Security Standards workgroups.
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 September 2011: September 22nd
Implementation Workgroup, 3 to 5 p.m./ET; TBD other Workgroups' calls.
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 and schedules 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: August 8, 2011.
Judith Sparrow,
Office of Programs and Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2011-20815 Filed 8-15-11; 8:45 am]
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