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10 Healthcare IT News ■ October 2008 industry news www.HealthcareITNews.com new CChit CoMMissioners ➔ Steve Arnold, MD, president and chief medical officer of CareData and CEO of Healthcare Global Advisors. ➔ Richard Benoit, senior program manager at Intel and director of ecosystem development for Dossia. ➔ Sarah T. Corley, MD, chief medical officer at NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc. ➔ John F. Derr, senior vice president and CIO of Golden Living. ➔ Michael L. Kappel, senior vice president of government and industry relations for McKesson Technology Solutions. ➔ Joy G. Keeler, a principal in health information technology for The MITRE Corporation. ➔ Jennifer Laughlin, vice president and chief information officer at UW Health PartnersWatertown Regional Medical Center. ➔ David Merritt, project director at the Center for Health Transformation, sponsored by The Gingrich Group. ahIc successor names board of directors ommendations to accelerate the “It will ensure that the critical the news: AHIC adoption of health information WASHINGTON – The American Health work of the AHIC can be effec- ➔ 2.0 approves slate technology. tively leveraged so that Information Community has of inaugural board The federally chartered adviinteroperable health named a board of directors to overmembers. sory committee offers advice on IT becomes a realsee its successor organization, a what it Means: the creation of common stanity and that the benefits ➔ public-private entity that is often Transition from dards to allow for different sysof health IT reach all called AHIC 2.0. government board to tems to interact and exchange Americans.” The announcement was made at a public-private begins. information in a system that AHIC was established Sept. 23 AHIC meeting. ensures confidentiality, priin 2005 to unite the “This is a key milestone for the Michael Leavitt health IT movement,” said Health and public and private sectors in a cooperative vacy and security for patients. The existing Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt. effort to provide the HHS secretary with recDS-5000 ad-analog-HITN.qxd:OLY 9/12/08 3:53 PM Page 1 aHIC see page 57 By BerNIe MoNegaIN, Editor CCHIT Continued from page 3 come, we will be rolling out inspections for various interoperability transactions, allowing HIEs to select which ones they choose to be certified for.” Leavitt said the commission is also accepting applications for 2008 certification of ambulatory electronic health records and will continue do so through March 31, 2009. A 30-day public comment period on the first draft of CCHIT-certified 2009 criteria for ambulatory, child health, cardiovascular medicine, behavioral health, inpatient and emergency department EHRs and personal health records is open through Oct. 28. CCHIT appointed eight new commissioners to serve two-year terms on CCHIT’s 21member board. The commission is made up of at least two representatives each from the provider, payer and vendor sectors, as well as representatives from other stakeholder groups. “CCHIT literally could not accomplish what it has without the superb contributions of the commissioners,” said Linda Kloss, CCHIT trustee and CEO of American Health Information Management Association.” ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: CCHIt 1008 ● eHI Continued from page 3 Magnetic tape is history. Get over it. It was great while it lasted, but magnetic tape’s time has passed. Digital dominates and there’s just no getting around that. Give up your ancient microcassette recorder and pick up the Olympus DS-5000 Digital Voice Recorder. It has an amazingly responsive slide switch that won’t clip any words. Get clear, high-quality sound with our new DSS Pro format. Easy-to-use software lets you manage your work more productively than ever. The DS-5000. Capture it all. private payers or philanthropic sources. “We are seeing stakeholders working together who don’t always work together,” she added. According to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (DR.I.), who attended the briefing, healthcare IT is the platform that U.S. healthcare reform needs to stand on. It is “extraordinarily vital for our country,” he said. Whitehouse said though the U.S. healthcare system is in dire need of reform and Medicare is fast becoming “an unmanageable situation,” all “is not doom and gloom.” He pledged to do all he can to move healthcare IT forward. “We are already late in changing an out-ofcontrol, bloated healthcare system,” he said. “We have the chance to solve this now. We need to keep this healthcare IT effort going full blast.” ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: eHI 1008 ● getolympus.com/audio Do you see signs of healthcare IT progress in your practice or in HIes in your area? send your thoughts to senior editor Diana Manos at diana.manos@ medtechpublishing.com. e ● Connect: olyMpuS 1008 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10043 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://getolympus.com/audio http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10041 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=10073

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