ONC’s HITAC: 2023 Recap and a Look Ahead to 2024
HealthIT Answers January 31, 2024
The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) plays an important role in informing ONC policies and programs, consisting of experts across the health care industry offering a wide range of health IT perspectives. The HITAC recommends policies, standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria to the national coordinator across five target areas: interoperability, privacy and security, patient access to information, use of technologies that support public health, and design and use of technologies that advance health equity.
The HITAC had a Productive 2023!
In total, the HITAC held nine full committee meetings, launched four subcommittees that held 58 subcommittee meetings, and issued 136 recommendations. These include recommendations for assessing the HTI-1 Proposed Rule, as well as recommendations from the Pharmacy Interoperability...