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AHIC’s third meeting creates four workgroups to promote health IT
EHR Connection, January 23, 2006
The American Health Information Community (AHIC) has created workgroups to accomplish specific projects within the next year in four areas--reporting existing hospital and ambulatory care data to public health agencies, creating electronic registration information and a medication history for consumers, creating capabilities for secure messaging between patients and clinicians to improve chronic care management, and exchanging laboratory results and analyses.
The 17-member community, chaired by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Mike Leavitt and established under the auspices of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), made the announcement January 17 during its third meeting to discuss how to promote health IT and EHR adoption. The AHIC offers recommendations to HHS on how to make EHRs interoperable while protecting patient privacy and security.
Go to www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic.html to read more about AHIC.
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