[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 44 (Wednesday, March 8, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12961-12962]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-04456]


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GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE


Health Information Technology Advisory Committee Nominations; 
Request for Letters of Nomination and Resumes

AGENCY: Government Accountability Office (GAO).

ACTION: Request for letters of nomination and resumes.

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SUMMARY: The 21st Century Cures Act established the Health Information 
Technology Advisory Committee to provide recommendations to the 
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on policies, 
standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria 
relating to the implementation of a health information technology 
infrastructure that advances the electronic access, exchange, and use 
of health information. The Act gave the Comptroller General 
responsibility for appointing 14 of the committee's members. The Act 
requires that members at least reflect providers, ancillary health care 
workers, consumers, purchasers, health plans, health information 
technology developers, researchers, patients, relevant Federal 
agencies, and individuals with technical expertise on health care 
quality, system functions, privacy, security, and on the electronic 
exchange and use of health information, including the use standards for 
such activity. GAO is accepting nominations of individuals for this 
committee. Letters of nomination and resumes should be submitted by 
April 14, 2017 for appointments that will be made in July 2017. 
Acknowledgement of submissions will be provided within a week of 
submission. Please contact Will

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Simerl at (404) 679-1888 if you do not receive an acknowledgement.

ADDRESSES: 
    Email: [email protected].
    Mail: ATTN: HITC Appointments, U.S. GAO, 441 G Street NW., 
Washington, DC 20548.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: GAO Office of Public Affairs, (202) 
512-4800.

    Authority: Pub. L. 114-255, Sec.  3002(d) (2016).

Gene L. Dodaro,
Comptroller General of the United States.
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