The 25-member Health IT Advisory Committee was created under the 21st Century Cures Act, which former President Barack Obama signed into law December 2016. The committee of experts — appointed by Congressional leaders, the HHS secretary and the comptroller general of the Government Accountability Office — will provide policy recommendations to the ONC related to interoperable health IT infrastructure.
Appointees to the committee include healthcare stakeholders like Steve Ready, CIO of Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare; Steven Lane, MD, clinical informatics director of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health; and biotech entrepreneur and surgeon Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD.
The Health IT Advisory Committee plans to hold public meetings throughout 2018.
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