{"id":489,"date":"2012-02-08T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthit.hhs.gov\/blog\/faca\/?p=489"},"modified":"2026-01-06T05:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:09:55","slug":"kudos-to-our-federal-advisory-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/insights-updates\/kudos-to-our-federal-advisory-committees\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos to Our Federal Advisory Committees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is very proud of the two federal advisory committees that we support: The Health IT Policy and the Health IT Standards Committees<\/a>. Created by the HITECH Act to provide input on the policies and technologies needed to improve health and care, the Committees, as noted in a recent blog post by David Kibbe and Brian Klepper <\/a>, are an invaluable resource. Through their open meetings and hearings, they promote transparency in ONC policy development and build support and ownership among key private-sector stakeholders in ONC policies and programs. They are a direct channel for private and public sector health IT leaders and the public to offer input into U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) processes for developing policies and regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Committees have been extraordinarily productive\u2014in fact, they\u2019ve been called the hardest working FACAs in the government. They and their dozen or so workgroups have conducted more than 150 meetings in 2011. Their recommendations have shaped key policies, programs, and technical activities to achieve HITECH goals since their inception in May 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2011 alone, their recommendations included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n