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Work Group on National Health Information Infrastructure
Charge
The NHII is a set of technologies, standards, and applications
that support communication and information to improve clinical care, monitor
public health, and educate consumers and patients. It is not a unitary
database. The broad goal of the NHII is health knowledge management and
delivery, so that the full array of information needed to improve the
publics health and health care is optimally available for professionals,
policy makers, researchers, patients, care givers, and consumers . The NHII as
a system should seek to improve and enhance privacy and confidentiality of
personal health information.
The Work Group will monitor developments in areas that represent components
of a national health information infrastructure (NHII). The areas initially
identified in the Work Groups October 1998 Concept Paper include privacy,
confidentiality and security; unique health identifiers; standards;
population-based data; computer-based health records; knowledge management and
decision support; and telemedicine. The Work Group will monitor relevant
activities of other NCVHS subcommittees and work groups; activities within HHS
and other Federal agencies; activities of professional and standards
organizations; global activities; and other pertinent activities.
The Work Group will make recommendations to the full Committee on
opportunities and barriers to integrating these activities more effectively to
help achieve the goals of the NHII.
Specifically, the Work Group will:
- Review the Concept Paper at least annually and produce iterative revisions
as needed. A first task will be to refine definitions and develop a more
specific glossary.
- Develop a matrix of existing activities related to the NHII, with
particular attention to the elements of the three computer-based health records
outlined in the Concept Paper (i.e. consumer health records, patient health
records, and population health records) as revised through task one, and other
elements in the Concept Paper. The Work Group will work with the HHS Data
Council and utilize the HHS Telehealth Inventory for those components within
HHS.
- Analyze the matrix to identify progress, areas that need (re)focussing,
and areas where new work is needed.
- Identify and analyze relevant models (e.g. Australia, Canada, the European
Union, the G-7, and the United Kingdom).
- Develop reports and recommendations for the full NCVHS committee.
- Promote, conduct, or collaborate on appropriate educational and outreach
activities designed to encourage progress toward an effective NHII.
- Conduct other activities that may be suggested in the course of its work.
Approved Feb. 4, 1999
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Last updated Sept. 11, 2002.
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