HITSP
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The HITSP Standards Harmonization Collaborative Program was awarded by the department of Health and Human Services to a Team comprising of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), Booz | Allen | Hamilton, HIMSS, the Advanced Technology Institute and a team of small businesses including SecurityRiskSolutions, Inc. 

During the first year of the program, SecurityRiskSolutions played a significant role of facilitating the Electronic Health Records-Laboratory Reporting (EHR-Lab) Technical Committee which ultimately was responsible for development of the HITSP EHR-Lab Interoperability Specification. The specification was accepted by the Panel and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on behalf of the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

National Health Information Network (NHIN)
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Staff members from SecurityRiskSolutions assisted the Department of Health and Human Services in their first NHIN Forum by participating as the Discussant for the Security and Privacy Functional Requirements of the NHIN breakout session.  Obtaining feedback from a session with over 100 participants, SecurityRiskSolutions subsequently reported out in testimony to the National Committee for Health and Vital Statistics (NCVHS), the advisory body to the DHHS.

Now in year two of the contract, SecurityRiskSolutions is facilitating the HITSP Security and Privacy Technical Committee with over 80 participants. The principal charter of the workgroup is to identify, evaluate, and select standards for Security and Privacy that support the Implementation Specifications of the Care Delivery, Population Health and Consumer Empowerment Technical Committees.