Policy

Health Information Technology

The Health Information Technology (HIT) Task Force, which reported to the PMC’s Science and Public Policy Committees, provides knowledge and expertise on the issues and opportunities pertaining to HIT as a key enabler and potential accelerator of the successful adoption of personalized medicine.  The Task Force serves an an advisory resource for PMC and its committees.  In 2010, the Task Force provided input to the Brookings Institution and Darrell West, Director of the Center for Technology Innovation, in the development of his paper, Enabling Personalized Medicine through Health Information Technology, on the policy issues at the intersection of HIT and personalized medicine.  The Task Force also oversees HIT-related material published on PMC’s website, and in PMC’s other publications and communications vehicles, reviewing them for technical accuracy. The Task Force also helps PMC to promulgate information on the role of HIT in personalized medicine to policymakers, industry, and the public.

• NIH adds substantial set of genetic, health information to online database
• HHS Strengthens Patients' Right to Access Lab Test Reports
  
• Enabling Personalized Medicine through Health Information Technology, by Darrell West, The Brookings Institution
• Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
• HITECH Programs This is the overview page to all of the programs funded under the HITECH Act, part of ARRA.  You’ll find info on the program, funding dollars, awardees (if granted), and eventually progress reports.
• Regulations & Guidance: The big issues currently within the federal rulemaking process are:  Meaningful Use; Standards & Certification; and the Certification Process.  A Privacy & Security framework is in development.  This page is the gateway to the latest information out of the ONC on regulations.
• AHRQ National Resource Center for Health IT
• HITECH Act:   The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 included $1.5 billion in allocations for Health Information technology. To review the complete legislation click here.
• The HIT Policy Committee and the HIT Standards Committee are Federal Advisory Committees established under the HITECH Act.  These links will bring you to background, upcoming/past meetings, guidance and reports from these FACAs.

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