Meetings: American Health Information Community Quality Workgroup

Federal Register: March 18, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 53)

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information

Technology; American Health Information Community Quality Workgroup

Meeting

ACTION: Announcement of meeting.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 17th meeting of the American Health

Information Community Quality Workgroup in accordance with the Federal

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App.).

DATES: April 30, 2008, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern).

ADDRESSES: Mary C. Switzer Building (330 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20201), Conference Room 4090 (please bring photo ID for entry to a

Federal building).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic/ quality/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Workgroup will continue its discussion on how health information technology can provide the data needed for the development of quality measures that are useful to patients and others in the health care industry, automate the measurement and reporting of a comprehensive current and future set of quality measures, and accelerate the use of clinical decision support that can improve performance on those quality measures.

The meeting will be available via Web cast. For additional information, go to: http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic/quality/quality_ instruct.html.

Dated: March 6, 2008.

Judith Sparrow,

Director, American Health Information Community, Office of Programs and

Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information

Technology.

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