Watch: Panel sets to improve Healthcare’s IT Infrastructure

The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee will hold its first meeting, Lawmakers tasked the group with advising the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on how to build a national infrastructure that better supports using health information electronically. The (ONC) agency plans to tap a private-sector organization to advance interoperability among health information networks. During the first meeting, the committee will discuss the Trusted Exchange Framework and the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability, according to an ONC spokesperson. The committee will eventually have at least 25 members, per the 21st Century Cures Act, named by HHS, congressional leaders, and the comptroller general.