“The Online Health Forum launched on October 28th on the FACA Blog to elicit comments and opinions on your Health IT adoption experience (or your plans for EHR adoption). Thank you for your active participation, with nearly 200 posts to date and over 10,000 “hits.” True to the spirit of our Open Government philosophy, many of you extended the conversation throughout a number of more prominent health IT blogs, including John Halamka, Adam Bosworth, Sean Nolan, Wes Rishel, Bob Coffield, and Brian Ahier, among others.
Your posts reflected a diverse range of views on the most effective approach to standards adoption. Standards Committee member Marc Overhage initiated a discussion thread based on his experiences operating one of the nation’s most mature health information exchange organizations. Others discussed the TLS, vocabulary semantics, network security issues and privacy challenges. Numerous physicians chimed in with stories of the challenges and benefits of adopting electronic health records capable of delivering information compliant with health IT standards.”
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Aneesh Chopra, Charles Jaffe, Clay Shirky, Federal Advisory Committee Blog, 19 November 2009
