[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 52 (Friday, March 16, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 15760]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-6433]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
HIT Standards Committee Advisory Meeting; Notice of Meeting
AGENCY: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of a public advisory
committee of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology (ONC). The meeting will be open to the public.
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.
Date and Time: The meeting will be held on April 18, 2012, from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m./Eastern Time.
Location: Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel, 999 Ninth
Street NW., Washington, DC 20001. For up-to-date information, go to
the ONC Web site, http://healthit.hhs.gov.
Contact Person: Mary Jo Deering, Office of the National
Coordinator, HHS, 330 C Street SW., Washington, DC 20201, 202-260-
1944, Fax: 202-690-6079, email: [email protected]. Please call
the contact person for up-to-date information on this meeting. A
notice in the Federal Register about last minute modifications that
impact a previously announced advisory committee meeting cannot
always be published quickly enough to provide timely notice.
Agenda: The committee will hear reports from its workgroups,
including the Clinical Operations, Vocabulary Task Force, Clinical
Quality, Implementation, and Enrollment Workgroups. ONC intends to
make background material available to the public no later than two
(2) business days prior to the meeting. If ONC is unable to post the
background material on its Web site prior to the meeting, it will be
made publicly available at the location of the advisory committee
meeting, and the background material will be posted on ONC's Web
site after 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 committee.
Written submissions may be made to the contact person on or before
October 17, 2011. Oral comments from the public will be scheduled
between approximately 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m./Eastern Time. Time
allotted for each presentation will be limited to three minutes
each. If the number of speakers requesting to comment is greater
than can be reasonably accommodated during the scheduled open public
hearing session, ONC will take written comments after the meeting
until close of business.
Persons attending ONC's advisory committee meetings are advised
that the agency is not responsible for providing access to
electrical outlets.
ONC welcomes the attendance of the public at its advisory
committee meetings. Seating is limited at the location, and ONC will
make every effort to accommodate persons with physical disabilities
or special needs. If you require special accommodations due to a
disability, please contact Mary Jo Deering 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. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App. 2).
Dated: March 8, 2012.
Mary Jo Deering,
Acting Director, Office of Policy and Planning, Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2012-6433 Filed 3-15-12; 8:45 am]
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