Once the charter ends, what will the American Health Information Community have accomplished?

The work of the Community will improve the quality of health care in the country, reduce medical errors, lower healthcare costs, and minimize hassle. It will accomplish these benefits by developing and making recommendations for:

• Protection of health information through appropriate privacy and security practices.
• Ongoing harmonization of industry-wide health IT standards.
• Achievement of an Internet-based nationwide health information network that includes information tools, specialized network functions, and security protections for interoperable health information exchange.
• Acceleration of interoperable electronic health records (EHR) adoption across the broad spectrum of health care providers. 
• Compliance certification and inspection processes for EHRs, including infrastructure components through which EHRs interoperate. 
• Identification of health IT standards for use by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in a Federal Information Processing Standards process relevant to Federal agencies.
• Identification and prioritization of specific use cases for which health IT is valuable, beneficial and feasible, such as adverse drug event reporting, electronic prescribing, lab and claims information sharing, public health, bioterrorism surveillance, and advanced research.
• Succession of the Community by a private-sector health information community initiative.