Meetings: HIT Policy Committee's Workgroup

Federal Register: June 16, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 115)

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information

Technology; HIT Policy Committee's Workgroup Meetings; Notice of

Meetings

AGENCY: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information

Technology, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of meetings.

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 Policy Committee's Workgroups: Meaningful

Use, Privacy & Security Policy, Adoption/Certification, Enrollment,

Privacy & Security Tiger Team, and Nationwide Health Information

Infrastructure (NHIN) workgroups.

General Function of the Committee: to provide recommendations to the National Coordinator on a policy framework for the development and adoption of a nationwide health information technology infrastructure that permits the electronic exchange and use of health information as is consistent with the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and that includes recommendations on the areas in which standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria are needed.

Date and Time: The HIT Policy Committee Workgroups will hold the following additional public meetings during June 2010: June 22nd

Privacy & Security Tiger Team, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m./ET; June 25th

Enrollment Workgroup, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m./ET; June 28th Enrollment

Workgroup, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m./ET and Privacy & Security Tiger Team, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m./ET. In addition, the June 28th Privacy & Security Policy

Workgroup, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m./ET, has been cancelled.

Location: All workgroup meetings will be available via webcast; for instructions on how to listen via telephone or Web visit http:// healthit.hhs.gov. 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: judy.sparrow@hhs.gov 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., meaningful use, the NHIN, privacy and security, or enrollment. 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 date. 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. No. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App. 2).

Dated: June 8, 2010.

Judith Sparrow,

Office of Programs and Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

FR Doc. 2010-14397 Filed 6-15-10; 8:45 am

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