Dr. DeSalvo, the committee’s chair, will oversee four distinct subgroups:
- Health IT Strategic Planning: This group will focus on fostering innovation, long-term strategy and evaluation of current programs.
- Advanced Health Models and Meaningful Use: This group will focus on advancing the adoption of clinical decision support, patient-reported outcomes, population management and other meaningful use objectives.
- Health IT Implementation, Usability and Safety: This group will issue product certifications and keep tabs on any safety issues.
- Interoperability and Health Information Exchange: This group will promote a business and regulatory environment that is conducive to HIEs and develop standards such as patient-matching protocol.
Working with these four subgroups will be two other expert groups, one focused on privacy and security and one on consumer engagement, ensuring these two areas remain a focus of the other workgroups.
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