Washington Debrief: New ONC Fellows Named

This Wednesday, CHIME will be hosting a joint webinar between the Policy Leadership Council and CHIME StateNet to hear about the Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P) Initiative of ONC.  This initiative is being led by a group under the Standards and Interoperability Framework, who’s objective is “to create a robust, repeatable process based on federal best practices that will enable ONC to execute on initiatives that will help improve interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology,” according to their website.  The purpose of the DS4P initiative  “is to enable the implementation and management of varying disclosure policies in an electronic health information exchange environment in an interoperable manner with the goal to produce a pilot project allowing providers to share portions of an electronic medical record while not sharing others, such as information related to substance abuse treatment, which is given heightened protection under the law.”

Scott Weinstein, Policy Analyst at the Office of National Drug Control Policy, will give an overview of the DS4P Initiative, and Matthew Arnheiter of Netsmart will demo the technology they are using in their Data Segmentation Privacy Pilot. The goal of the pilot is to demonstrate a viable technology solution for sequestering and exchanging sensitive patient data such as behavioral health and mental health information.

Click here to register.

Federal Public Policy Award for CIO Leadership Announced; Nominations Due Sept. 6

CHIME CIO Members who have demonstrated leadership at the Federal level in educating Congress and the Administration on the value of health IT and its role in patient care.  Involvement with the PSC, PLC, a regulatory comment workgroup, and National Health IT Week are examples of federal level activity.  Nominations are now being accepted for the First Annual Federal Public Policy Award with submissions due by September 6, 2013.  This annual award recognizes leadership at the Federal level for a range of activities:

• Demonstrated leadership at the Federal level in educating policy makers on the value of health IT through Congressional letters, Congressional meetings, and/or regulatory comments among other things;
• Testifying before Federal workgroups or a Congressional Committee;
• Visiting with your Representative, Senator or Congressional staff in DC or in your District; or
• Providing your feedback on Federal level initiatives through StateNet and myCHIME.

Nominations are due September 6, 2013.  Nominations may be submitted by an organization on behalf of a candidate or self-nominations are welcome as well.  Include a CV with your letter of nomination and email to Angela Morris, amorris@cio-chime.org.  The winner will be announced as part of the Fall Forum in Scottsdale, AZ (October 9-11, 2013).

Edited by Gabriel Perna