Tech Daily Dose: Week Ahead: Health IT, Internet Issues http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/01/whats-up-this-week.php?rss=1 en Copyright 2010 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:58:01 GMT http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Week Ahead: Health IT, Internet Issues Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., will chair a hearing of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Thursday that will focus on the development of a nationwide system of electronic medical records. HELP Chairman Edward Kennedy and ranking member Michael Enzi sponsored health IT legislation in the 110th Congress but cost and privacy concerns stalled the bill and it never reached the floor. Key Senate staffers have been discussing how such language might be incorporated into a forthcoming economic stimulus package. This is the first in a series of hearings planned by Mikulski who was tapped by Kennedy to lead a Senate work group on improving health care quality.

Witnesses include Jack Cochran, executive director of the Permanente Federation; National Quality Forum President Janet Corrigan; Government Accounting Office IT Director Valerie Melvin; Microsoft Health Solutions Vice President Peter Neupert; and the Health Leadership Council's Mary Grealey. In related news, Booz Allen Hamilton will hold a health IT briefing Monday on a study that calls for "a consumer-centered, quality healthcare system." Speakers include Booz Allen officials and representatives from the Federation of American Hospitals, American Medical Informatics Association and Vanderbilt University.

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