Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; American Health Information Community Quality Workgroup Meeting

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This notice announces the first meeting of the American Health Information Community Quality Workgroup in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App.). The Quality Workgroup was created to make recommendations to the American Health Information Community on how HIT can: Provide data for the development of quality measures that are useful to patients and others in the health care industry; automate the measurement and reporting of a comprehensive current and future set of quality measures; and accelerate the use of clinical decision support that will improve performance using quality measures. The workgroup's initial charge will be to make recommendations to the American Health Information Community that specify how certified health information technology should capture, aggregate, and report data for a core set of ambulatory and in-patient quality measures. Date/Time: September 22, 2006, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.