Home Health & Hospice Week

If you think the feds need to hear more about health IT from the home health and hospice perspective, you may want to serve on the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC).

The Government Accountability Office is accepting HITAC nominations until Aug. 24. HITAC provides “recommendations to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on policies, standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria relating to the implementation of a health information technology infrastructure that advances the electronic access, exchange, and use of health information,” the GAO says in a notice to providers.

“GAO expects to appoint at least five new HITAC members, focusing especially on health care providers, ancillary health care workers, health information technology developers, and patient advocates,” the agency says. More information and nomination submission instructions are in the GAO’s July 19 Federal Register notice at www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-07-19/pdf/2021-15136.pdf.