[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 109 (Tuesday, June 8, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 32472]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-13683]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES




Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology; HIT Standards Committee; Notice and Publication of 

Committee Recommendations to the National Coordinator for Health 

Information Technology



AGENCY: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology, HHS.



ACTION: Notice of committee recommendations and invitation for public 

input.



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SUMMARY: This notice publishes recommendations made by the HIT 

Standards Committee (Committee) at its public meeting on April 28, 

2010, and invites public input on the recommendations at the 

Committee's next meeting on June 30, 2010. The Committee is a federal 

advisory committee to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health 

Information Technology (ONC).

    Name of Committee: HIT Standards Committee.

    General Function of the Committee: To provide recommendations to 

the National Coordinator on standards, implementation specifications, 

and certification criteria for the electronic exchange and use of 

health information for purposes of adoption, consistent with the 

implementation of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, and in 

accordance with policies developed by the HIT Policy Committee. 

Sections 3003(b)(4) and (e) of the Health Information Technology for 

Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act requires ONC to publish the 

Committee's recommendations to the National Coordinator in the Federal 

Register and on ONC's Web site.

    Contact Person: Judith Sparrow, Office of the National Coordinator, 

HHS, 330 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20201, 202-205-4528, Fax: 202-

690-6079, e-mail: [email protected].

    Recommendations: During the April 28, 2010 meeting, the Committee's 

recommendations focused on standards for governance, funding and 

infrastructure of controlled vocabularies, value sets and vocabulary 

subsets to be used primarily to further interoperability between 

providers and the systems they deploy as defined by the various stages 

of Meaningful Use Objectives. The recommendations may be found at 

http://healthit.hhs.gov/standardscommittee.

    Procedure: Individuals wishing to make comments on the Committee's 

April 28, 2010, recommendations may present oral comments at the 

Committee's next meeting on June 30, 2010, from approximately 1 p.m. to 

2 p.m., e.t., at the Marriott Hotel Washington, 1221 22nd Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20037. Comments will be limited to two (2) minutes per 

person. A separate notice announcing this meeting has been published in 

the Federal Register and provides additional information.



    Authority:  Sections 3003(b)(4) and (e) of Health Information 

Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, Title XIII 

of Division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 

(ARRA), Pub. L. No. 111-5.



    Dated: June 2, 2010.

Judith Sparrow,

Office of Programs and Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator 

for Health Information Technology.

[FR Doc. 2010-13683 Filed 6-7-10; 8:45 am]

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