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to the feds’ new Health Information TechnologyPolicy Committee, which was created as part of the economi c stimulus package, PAMF said Tang, an early promoter of electronic medical records, is an internakl medicine physician, vice president and chief medicalk information officer at Palo Alto Medicao Foundation, part of the a medical group and clinicapl network with approximately 900 physicians on The new 13-member committee will advise the U.S.
Healtb and Human Services secretaryy and the head of the Officre of the National Coordinator for Health Informatioj Technology on creating a policy framework for the adoption of electronixc health records and development of anationwide health-care IT infrastructure to permit electronic exchange and use of health Tang told the San Francisco Business Times on Thursday that a numbeer of key issues need to be resolved relatively soon in orded to meet the Obama administration’s and the stimulus package’sx “aggressive timetable” for moving hospitals and doctor s into the era of electronic medicine.
Those include defining a key term in the which requiresthat health-care providers show they’re making “meaningful of IT in their operations, and determiningb what criteria to use for certifying electronic health records systemws that qualify for reimbursement. “It’sd definitely an aggressive timetable,” Tang told the Business Times, “but I don’tf think it’s impossible.” Hospitalsa and doctors are hoping to qualify forfederal health-care IT stimulud funds by 2011, but the exacr timing of when stimulus fundes will start to flow is also uncertain at present.
Another Bay Area representative, David Lansky, president and CEO of San Francisco’s , was also named to the committee, whic h is expected to play a significant role in framingnationak health-care IT policy. Lansky will represent health-care’sw purchasers’ perspective. The economic stimuluw act includes $17.2 billion in grants and incentives for hospitalas and physician practices thatare “meaningful of EHRs to improve care and enhance The Recovery Act requirexd the comptroller to name committee memberse to represent 10 sectors of the health-care industry, including consumer groups, labor unions, health plans, researchers and IT Tang was selected to represent health-care Tang oversees the foundation’s EHR and integrated personal health record system, PAMFOnline, officials said.
Undert his leadership, PAMF became an early adopter of an EHR systenmin 1999; the majority of U.S. hospitals and many clinics and medicall offices have yet todo so. Tang is a membere of the Institute of Medicine and was one ofthe “50p Most Powerful Physician Executives in 2008” named by Moderhn Physician magazine. Christine vice president, National Partnership for Woman and Families. Arthur Davidson, director, Public Healthn Informatics, Denver Public Health Department, Adam Clark, research and policy director, . Marc chief information officer, Intermountain Healthcare.
Scott White, assistanf director and technologyproject director, Local 1199 SEIU Training and Employment Fund. LaTanya Sweeney, director, Data Privacy Lab, Carnegies Mellon University. Neil Calman, presidentf and chief executive officer, Institute for Familgy Health. Connie Delaney, University of Minnesota Schoolof Nursing. Charles Kennedy, vice president of Health Information . Judith Faulkner, founder, CEO, presidenyt and chairman of board, Epic Systems. David medical director for clinical andqualitg analysis, Partners HealthCare/ .