“The Health and Human Services Department plans to issue proposed standards for health information technology systems in December, and the government’s chief technology officer told an advisory committee on Thursday that policymakers should push for adoption of simple criteria that can evolve.
The department should not let “the perfect be the enemy of the good enough,” in its effort to meet the goal, Aneesh Chopra, told a meeting of the Health IT Standards Committee. John Halamka, chief information officer of Harvard Medical School and vice chairman of the standards committee agreed, saying HHS standards should be simple enough to meet the business needs of the health industry.”
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Bob Brewin, NextGov, 19 November 2009
