HIT Definitions Project Announces First Public Forum
by Barbara Kram, Editor | January 02, 2008
The National Alliance
for Health Information
Technology
for Health Information
Technology
Chicago - To encourage widespread industry participation in a project for the Office of the National Coordinator to define key health information technology terms, The National Alliance for Health Information Technology, with the guidance and management of BearingPoint Inc. (NYSE: BE), one of the world's largest management and technology consulting firms, is organizing two public forums to gather comments. The first public forum will be held in Washington, DC on January 16.
The public forums will play a vital role in the process of developing consensus-based definitions for electronic health record, electronic medical record, personal health record, health information exchange and regional health information network. Public forum participants will have the opportunity to review work-in-progress from the project's two work groups and provide feedback. The forums offer the healthcare community and other thought leaders the opportunity to comment, share concerns, and make important contributions to the project.
"Participants at the public forums will help us end the confusion and remove roadblocks to technology-based progress in healthcare caused by the lack of common definitions for these terms," says Jane Horowitz, vice president and chief marketing officer for the Alliance, who is leading the project.
The Washington, DC forum will be held from 9:00 am - 12:00 p.m., Eastern Time, at Washington Hospital, National Rehabilitation Center Auditorium. More information about the forum as well as the registration form for participants can be found at http://definitions.nahit.org/forums.php . There is no registration fee associated with this event.
About the Alliance
The National Alliance for Health Information Technology is a diverse partnership of senior executives from all healthcare sectors working to advance the adoption of clinical information technology systems to achieve measurable improvements in patient safety, quality of care and operating performance. The Alliance collaborates with healthcare and government leaders to influence healthcare decision-makers to act effectively in creating an efficient, safe, unified, and inclusive health system possible. Since its founding in 2002, the Chicago-based Alliance has helped forge consensus and accelerate progress on such important initiatives as developing an industry-endorsed interoperability definition, creating a public directory of health IT standards and authoring Rules of Engagement: A proven path for instilling, and then installing a CPOE approach that works. The Alliance is a co-founder of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and its CEO chaired the Commission on Systemic Interoperability (CSI). More information about the Alliance is available at www.nahit.org .
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The public forums will play a vital role in the process of developing consensus-based definitions for electronic health record, electronic medical record, personal health record, health information exchange and regional health information network. Public forum participants will have the opportunity to review work-in-progress from the project's two work groups and provide feedback. The forums offer the healthcare community and other thought leaders the opportunity to comment, share concerns, and make important contributions to the project.
"Participants at the public forums will help us end the confusion and remove roadblocks to technology-based progress in healthcare caused by the lack of common definitions for these terms," says Jane Horowitz, vice president and chief marketing officer for the Alliance, who is leading the project.
The Washington, DC forum will be held from 9:00 am - 12:00 p.m., Eastern Time, at Washington Hospital, National Rehabilitation Center Auditorium. More information about the forum as well as the registration form for participants can be found at http://definitions.nahit.org/forums.php . There is no registration fee associated with this event.
About the Alliance
The National Alliance for Health Information Technology is a diverse partnership of senior executives from all healthcare sectors working to advance the adoption of clinical information technology systems to achieve measurable improvements in patient safety, quality of care and operating performance. The Alliance collaborates with healthcare and government leaders to influence healthcare decision-makers to act effectively in creating an efficient, safe, unified, and inclusive health system possible. Since its founding in 2002, the Chicago-based Alliance has helped forge consensus and accelerate progress on such important initiatives as developing an industry-endorsed interoperability definition, creating a public directory of health IT standards and authoring Rules of Engagement: A proven path for instilling, and then installing a CPOE approach that works. The Alliance is a co-founder of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and its CEO chaired the Commission on Systemic Interoperability (CSI). More information about the Alliance is available at www.nahit.org .
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