Clarification request: is the "advisory board" to which we nominated
Musen the same as or different from the "commissioners"? (01)
Pat (02)
Patrick Cassidy
MITRE Corporation
260 Industrial Way
Eatontown, NJ 07724
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Email: pcassidy@xxxxxxxxx (03)
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Yup, I got the same yesterday. (05)
Bummer. Pepsico? (06)
Ciao,
Rex (07)
>fyi
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>From: National Coordinator for Health IT News
>[mailto:HEALTH-IT@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>Johnson, Mari (HHS/OS)
>Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 9:43 AM
>To: HEALTH-IT@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: American Health Information Community
>(AHIC) Members Announced by Secretary Leavitt
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>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>Contact: HHS Press Office
>Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005
>(202) 690-6343
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>COMMISSIONERS SELECTED FOR AMERICAN HEALTH INFORMATION COMMUNITY
>The Community Will Help Shape the Future of Health Care for
Generations
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>HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today selected 16
>commissioners to serve on the American Health
>Information Community (the Community), a
>federally-chartered commission charged with
>advising the Secretary on how to make health
>information digital and interoperable. The work
>of the Community will help the country achieve
>the President's goal of having most Americans
>using interoperable electronic health records
>within 10 years. Patients, doctors, hospitals
>and insurance companies will have access to
>vital and confidentiality-protected medical
>information immediately and efficiently, helping
>to reduce medical errors, improve quality, lower
>costs and eliminate paperwork hassle.
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>"The President has set a national goal to move
>health care from the paper age to the
>information age, and the American Health
>Information Community will help guide this
>transformation." Secretary Leavitt said. "My
>aspiration is for the Community to provide
>stakeholders with a meaningful voice in a
>federal process that will ultimately shape
>health care for generations."
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>Interoperability of health information is a
>shared goal among health care payers, providers,
>vendors and consumers. Myriad competitive
>interests have prevented a unified effort to
>achieve common standards and interoperability.
>As a result, health care has lagged behind other
>industries -- like the banking, transportation,
>and retail trade -- in realizing the benefits of
>modern information technology (IT).
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>"From nearly anywhere in the world, we can
>withdraw money from our bank accounts, pay
>bills, apply for a mortgage, book airline
>tickets and even order groceries online,"
>Secretary Leavitt said. "But, more often than
>not, we can't share a X-ray digitally, from one
>hospital to another, even if they are on
>opposing street corners. Even worse, if a loved
>one is involved in a life-threatening accident,
>paramedics and emergency room doctors cannot
>quickly check their medical histories for even
>the most basic things - like blood type or
>allergies. We can and must do better than
>this."
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>The national strategy to confront this problem
>calls for federal agencies -- that pay more than
>one third of all health care costs -- to
>collaborate with private payers in developing
>and adopting an architecture, standards,
>certification process and a method of governance
>for ongoing implementation of health IT. Once
>the market has structure, patients, providers,
>medical professionals and vendors will innovate,
>create efficiencies and improve care.
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>Secretary Leavitt will chair the Community. In
>addition to the Secretary, commission membership
>includes the following:
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>§ Scott P. Serota, President and CEO,
>Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
>§ Douglas E. Henley, M.D., Executive
>Vice President, American Academy of Family
>Physicians
>§ Lillee Smith Gelinas, R.N., Chief Nursing Officer, VHA Inc.
>§ Charles N. Kahn III, President, Federation of American
Hospitals
>§ Nancy Davenport-Ennis, CEO, National Patient Advocate
Foundation
>§ Steven S Reinemund, CEO and Chairman, PepsiCo
>§ Kevin D. Hutchinson, CEO, SureScripts
>§ Craig R. Barrett, Chairman, Intel Corporation
>§ E. Mitchell Roob, Secretary, Indiana
>Family and Social Services Administration
>§ Mark B. McClellan, M.D.,
>Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
>Services
>§ Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D.,
>Director, Centers for Disease Control and
>Prevention
>§ Jonathan B. Perlin, M.D., Under
>Secretary for Health, Department of Veterans
>Affairs
>§ William Winkenwerder Jr., M.D.,
>Assistant Secretary of Defense, Department of
>Defense
>§ Mark J. Warshawsky, Assistant
>Secretary for Economic Policy, Department of
>Treasury
>§ Linda M. Springer, Director, Office of Personnel Management
>§ Michelle O'Neill, Acting Under
>Secretary for Technology, Department of Commerce
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>"I have selected commissioners who represent key
>interests and have the broad support of their
>peers," Secretary Leavitt said. "The Community
>will adhere to an aggressive timetable that
>focuses on the areas of critical need -- such as
>adverse drug event reporting and
>bio-surveillance -- as we get about the work of
>developing, setting and certifying standards."
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>Dr. David Brailer, National Coordinator for
>Information Technology, added, "The Community
>will provide input and recommendations to HHS on
>how to make health information digital and
>interoperable, and assure that the privacy and
>security of that information is protected. The
>public-private nature of this group is designed
>to ensure that this nationwide transition to
>electronic health records -- including common
>standards and interoperability -- occurs in a
>smooth, market-led way."
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>In addition to these commissioners, who will
>serve two-year terms, the Secretary will seek
>input from Advisors who will provide subject
>matter expertise on issues related to
>interoperability, adoption, privacy and
>security, and other matters identified by the
>Community. The federal members of the Community
>serve in their formal capacities as appointees
>within the federal system and not as individuals.
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>The first meeting of the Community is scheduled
>for Oct. 7, 2005 in Washington, D.C. The meeting
>is open to the public. Materials shared with the
>commissioners before and at the meeting, as well
>as minutes of the proceedings can be accessed
>online at
><http://www.hhs.gov/healthit>www.hhs.gov/healthit.
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>A full copy of the Community's charter is
>available at
><http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahiccharter.pdf>www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic
charter.pdf
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>Note: All HHS press releases, fact sheets and
>other press materials are available at
><http://www.hhs.gov/news>http://www.hhs.gov/news.
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