57026 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 180 / Friday, September 17, 2010 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the National Coordinator for 

Health Information Technology; HIT 

Policy Committee’s Workgroup 

Meetings; Notice of Meetings 

AGENCY: Office of the National 

Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of meetings. 

This notice announces forthcoming 

subcommittee meetings of a federal 

advisory committee of the Office of the 

National Coordinator for Health 

Information Technology (ONC). The 

meetings will be open to the public via 

dial-in access only. 

Name of Committees: HIT Policy 

Committee’s Workgroups: Meaningful 

Use, Privacy & Security Tiger Team, 

Enrollment, Governance, Adoption/ 

Certification, and Information Exchange 

workgroups. 

General Function of the Committee: 

To provide recommendations to the 

National Coordinator on a policy 

framework for the development and 

adoption of a nationwide health 

information technology infrastructure 

that permits the electronic exchange and 

use of health information as is 

consistent with the Federal Health IT 

Strategic Plan and that includes 

recommendations on the areas in which 

standards, implementation 

specifications, and certification criteria 

are needed. 

Date and Time: The HIT Policy 

Committee Workgroups will hold the 

following public meetings during 

October 2010: October 4th Governance 

Workgroup, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m./ET; October 

5th Meaningful Use Workgroup, 10 a.m. 

to 12 p.m./ET; October 6th Privacy & 

Security Tiger Team, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m./ 

ET; October 8th Quality Measures 

Workgroup, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m./ET; 

October 12th Governance Workgroup, 

2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m./ET; October 14th 

Information Exchange Workgroup, 3 

p.m. to 5 p.m./ET; October 15th Privacy 

& Security Tiger Team, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m./ 

ET; and October 28th Quality Measures 

Workgroup, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m./ET. 

Location: All workgroup meetings 

will be available via webcast; for 

instructions on how to listen via 

telephone or Web visit http:// 

healthit.hhs.gov. Please check the ONC 

Web site for additional information or 

revised schedules as it becomes 

available. 

Contact Person: Judy Sparrow, Office 

of the National Coordinator, HHS, 330 C 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20201, 

202–205–4528, Fax: 202–690–6079, email: judy.sparrow@hhs.gov. Please call 

the contact person for up-to-date 

information on these meetings. A notice 

in the Federal Register about last 

minute modifications that affect a 

previously announced advisory 

committee meeting cannot always be 

published quickly enough to provide 

timely notice. 

Agenda: The workgroups will be 

discussing issues related to their 

specific subject matter, e.g., meaningful 

use, information exchange, privacy and 

security, enrollment, governance, or 

adoption/certification. If background 

materials are associated with the 

workgroup meetings, they will be 

posted on ONC’s Web site prior to the 

meeting at http://healthit.hhs.gov. 

Procedure: Interested persons may 

present data, information, or views, 

orally or in writing, on issues pending 

before the workgroups. Written 

submissions may be made to the contact 

person on or before two days prior to 

the workgroups’ meeting date. Oral 

comments from the public will be 

scheduled at the conclusion of each 

workgroup meeting. Time allotted for 

each presentation will be limited to 

three minutes. If the number of speakers 

requesting to comment is greater than 

can be reasonably accommodated 

during the scheduled open public 

session, ONC will take written 

comments after the meeting until close 

of business on that day. 

If you require special 

accommodations due to a disability, 

please contact Judy Sparrow at least 

seven (7) days in advance of the 

meeting. 

ONC is committed to the orderly 

conduct of its advisory committee 

meetings. Please visit our Web site at 

http://healthit.hhs.gov for procedures 

on public conduct during advisory 

committee meetings. 

Notice of this meeting is given under 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463, 5 U.S.C., App. 2). 

Dated: September 13, 2010. 

Judith Sparrow, 

Office of Programs and Coordination, Office 

of the National Coordinator for Health 

Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2010–23257 Filed 9–16–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the National Coordinator for 

Health Information Technology; HIT 

Policy Committee Advisory Meeting; 

Notice of Meeting 

AGENCY: Office of the National 

Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

This notice announces a forthcoming 

meeting of a public advisory committee 

of the Office of the National Coordinator 

for Health Information Technology 

(ONC). The meeting will be open to the 

public. 

Name of Committee: HIT Policy 

Committee. 

General Function of the Committee: 

To provide recommendations to the 

National Coordinator on a policy 

framework for the development and 

adoption of a nationwide health 

information technology infrastructure 

that permits the electronic exchange and 

use of health information as is 

consistent with the Federal Health IT 

Strategic Plan and that includes 

recommendations on the areas in which 

standards, implementation 

specifications, and certification criteria 

are needed. 

Date and Time: The meeting will be 

held on October 20, 2010, from 10 a.m. 

to 4 p.m./Eastern Time. 

Location: To be determined. For upto-date information, go to the ONC Web 

site, http://healthit.hhs.gov. 

Contact Person: Judy Sparrow, Office 

of the National Coordinator, HHS, 330 C 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20201, 

202–205–4528, Fax: 202–690–6079, email: judy.sparrow@hhs.gov. Please call 

the contact person for up-to-date 

information on this meeting. A notice in 

the Federal Register about last minute 

modifications that impact a previously 

announced advisory committee meeting 

cannot always be published quickly 

enough to provide timely notice. 

Agenda: The committee will hear 

reports from its workgroups, including 

the Meaningful Use Workgroup, the 

Privacy & Security Tiger Team, the 

Information Exchange Workgroup, the 

Enrollment Workgroup, and the 

Governance Workgroup. ONC intends to 

make background material available to 

the public no later than two (2) business 

days prior to the meeting. If ONC is 

unable to post the background material 

on its Web site prior to the meeting, it 

will be made publicly available at the 

location of the advisory committee 

meeting, and the background material 

will be posed on ONC’s Web site after 

the meeting, at http://healthit.hhs.gov. 


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