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April 19, 2007:
HITSP PowerPoint Presentation Now Online
The HITSP Security and Privacy Work Group held a Town Hall
teleconference meeting April 19. This conference was open to the
HITSP members to review current S&PWG activities, HITSP Security and
Privacy constructs under consideration, and review the Security and
Privacy Requirements, Design and Standards Selection (RDSS).Visit
the SRS Papers and Publications
page or
HIMSS HITSP online for this PowerPoint presentation.
January 26, 2007:
For Immediate Release:
U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael O.
Leavitt has accepted 30 consensus standards developed to help create
a national health information network. Back in October, the
Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) delivered
to the American Heath Information Community (AHIC) recommendations
and a summary report regarding the standards which are related to
three interoperability specifications relating to biosurveillance,
consumer empowerment, and electronic health records. These were then
passed to Leavitt. President Bush has issued an executive order
that requires that any new or modified federal health information
system started after January 1, 2008 meet the requirements of these
new standards. Security Risk Solutions, Inc., continues to be
actively involved in the facilitation of the Technical Committees
work, including coordination of cross-Technical Committee issues
relating to Security and Privacy, as a member of the Project
Team and as a representative on the Healthcare Information
Technology Standards Panel.
Background
The
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
(ONC) has as its mission the implementation of President Bush’s
vision for widespread adoption of interoperable electronic health
records (EHRs) within ten (10) years. In the fall of 2005, ONC
awarded multiple contracts to advance this goal. Among these were
contracts for creating processes to harmonize standards, certify EHR
applications, develop nationwide health information network
prototypes and recommend necessary changes to standardized diverse
security and privacy policies.
Security Risk Solutions, Inc., was awarded a contract to advance
this goal in cooperation with ANSI and strategic partners HIMSS,
Booz Allen Hamilton, and the Advanced Technology Institute,.
This
standards harmonization collaborative established the Healthcare
Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP).
HITSP Objectives
To
serve and establish a cooperative partnership between the public and
private sectors to achieve a widely accepted and useful set of
standards that will enable and support widespread interoperability
among healthcare software applications in a Nationwide Health
Information Network for the United States To harmonize relevant
standards in the healthcare industry to enable and advance
interoperability of healthcare applications, and the interchange of
healthcare data, to assure accurate use, access, privacy and
security, both for supporting the delivery of care and public
health.
HITSP Technical Committees
Technical Committees are formed to support American Health
Information Community (AHIC) identified breakthrough areas and
perform gap and overlap analyses, select standards, and develop and
test documentation used to support implementation of the standards.
HITSP Technical Committees are working on the following areas of
focus:
Population Health: Transmission of essential data from
ambulatory care, emergency department visits, utilization, and lab
result data from electronically enabled healthcare delivery and
public health systems in a standardized and anonymized format.
Consumer Empowerment: Allow consumers to establish and
manage permissions access rights and informed consent for authorized
and secure exchange, viewing, and querying of their linked patient
registration summaries and medication histories between designated
caregivers and health professionals.
Care Delivery: Allow ordering clinicians to
electronically access laboratory results, and allow nonordering
authorized clinicians to electronically access historical and other
laboratory results for clinical care.
Security and Privacy: The
Cross-cutting Technical Committee was originally formed as a HITSP
WG to address security and privacy related issues relating to the
standards harmonization efforts of other Technical Committees.
Now with over 80 members, the HITSP Security and Privacy Technical
Committee has expanded it's role by addressing requirements from all
new Use Cases provided to HITSP by the Office of the National
Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) at the Department of Health and
Human Services.
Security Risk Solutions, Inc., was selected to lead and facilitate
the committee efforts and to report the HITSP board and Panel.
See
our HITSP page for further
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