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A federal standards committee working with the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has established workgroups that will deliver reports in 90 days on three areas of standards for health IT: clinical quality, clinical operations and privacy/security, according to an announcement in the Federal Register.

Under the economic stimulus law, the Health and Human Services Department’s National Coordinator for Health IT will oversee $17 billion in incentive payments to physicians and hospitals that adopt certified health IT systems. The coordinator also will establish a process to certify electronic health record solutions produced by vendors and will set details on implementation.

Congress created the Health IT Standards Committee and the Health IT Policy Committee to make recommendations to the national coordinator.

via Health IT standards panel creates workgroups — Federal Computer Week.