News & Resources

	Upcoming Events

• Agenda
• Update on HIT Policy Committee and its Workgroups
• Clinical Quality Workgroup
• The Clinical Quality Workgroup: Progress Report describes the approach used to identify the standarized performance measures that correspond to HIT Policy Committee's 2011 measures.
• Meaningful Use Measure Grid includes all the detailed EHR data types used to compute quality measures.
• Clinical Operations Workgroup
• The Clinical Operations Workgroup Report clarifies the descriptions, updates documentation and refines recommendations.
• The Clinical Operations Workgroup Recommendation matrix includes all the detailed standards supporting quality measures and health information exchanges as well as identification of standards gaps requiring harmonzation or commission of new standards.
• Privacy and Security
• The Privacy and Security Workgroup Report describes the approach used to specify standards in support of meaningful use and the ARRA eight statutory requirements.
• The Privacy and Security Standards applicable to ARRA Requirements includes all of the detailed security standards and a recommended implementation timeframe.

• Agenda
• Review of Meaningful Use Definition & Future Plans
• Certification/Adoption Workgroup Recommendations - Specifics
• Information Exchange Workgroup - The Scope of Federal Activity

• Clinical Quality Workgroup
• The Report of the Clinical Quality Workgroup describes the approach used to specify the 27 performance measures for 2011 that support meaningful use.
• Quality Workgroup Update for Meaningful Use includes all the detailed EHR data types used to compute quality measures plus a matrix of sites of care and relevant specialties.
• Clinical Operations Workgroup
• Clinical Operations Workgroup Report describes the approach used to specify standards for 2011, 2013 and 2015 linked to each meaningful use metric.
• The Clinical Operations Workgroup Recommendation matrix includes all the detailed standards supporting quality measures and health information exchanges as well as identification of standards gaps requiring harmonization or commission of new standards.
• Privacy and Security
• The Privacy and Security Workgroup Report describes the approach used to specify standards in support of meaningful use and the ARRA eight statutory requirements.
• The Privacy and Security Workgroup Recommendation matrix includes all of the detailed security standards and an indicator of their readiness for implementation.

• Presentation (Zip file) (Text-only PDF)
• Audio Files
• 7/14 Before Lunch
• 7/14 After Lunch
• 7/15

Computerized System Limits PICU Medication Errors. August 10, 2009. In pediatric intensive care units, computerized physician order entry and a clinical decision support system that limits doses by weight may significantly reduce rates of medical prescription errors and potential adverse drug events, according to a study published online Aug. 10 in Pediatrics.

Interview: Adam Clark of the Lance Armstrong Foundation and HIT Policy Committee. August 6, 2009 Interview discussing the meaningful use criteria and future health IT trends. “I see health IT as a leverage platform to revolutionize medical research and practice in the years to come. “

State Experts Issue Recommendations for Implementing Electronic Health Information Exchange. August 4, 2009 The State Alliance for e-health releases a report to help states lead the way in using health IT and HIE and guide them as they begin instituting the HITECH Act.

Lieutenant Governers Association Adopts Resolution for Health IT The resolution, called "Ensuring the Adoption of Health Information Technology Systems," calls on the association to advance interoperable health IT and its adoption among providers.