The Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has launched a new blog, Health IT Buzz. From HHS’s release:
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s activities that will be discussed on Health IT Buzz include:
* Activities to advance standards to achieve interoperability, which will ensure accurate and widespread exchange of health information;
* Evaluation of new options for the certification of electronic health records;
* Exploration of health IT related regulatory and guidance initiatives to protect the privacy and security of health information; and,
* An assessment of critical privacy and security issues.
The conversation is already happening on the first post National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal, MD.
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