[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 172 (Wednesday, September 6, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 52546]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-7453]


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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:  Meeting announcement.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the first 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.). The 
Quality Workgroup was created to make recommendations to the American 
Health Information Community on how HIT can: Provide data 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 will improve 
performance using quality measures. The workgroup's initial charge will 
be to make recommendations to the American Health Information Community 
that specify how certified health information technology should 
capture, aggregate, and report data for a core set of ambulatory and 
in-patient quality measures.
    Date/Time: September 22, 2006, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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/workgroups.html.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting will be available via Web cast 
at http://www.eventcenterlive.com/cfmx/ec/login/login1.cfm?BID=67.

    Dated: August 29, 2006.
Judith Sparrow,
Director, American Health Information Community, Office of Programs and 
Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information 
Technology.
[FR Doc. 06-7453 Filed 9-5-06; 8:45 am]
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