Health Care Reform related documents and meetings.

New Documents

• Health Care Reform Tasks & Deliverables "Dashboard" (10/6/09)
• Vermont Health Information Technology Plan  (Oct. 2009)
• VT HIE Coop Agreement LOI  (9/11/09)
• HIT Payment Reform Workgroup Final Report 2009 (8/31/09)
• HIT /HIE Action Steps Memo (8-20-09)
• Regional HIT Extrension Center Advisory Group (Aug. 2009)
• Broadband and HIT-HIE Memo (8-11-09)
• Embedding HIT in Health Care Reform  (August 2009)
• Health Resource Allocation Plan (HRAP) Update Recommendations and Implementation Options (June 2009)
• 2009 HRAP Update (July 2009)
• Corrections Health Work Group Report to Legislature (July 2009)

Meeting Schedules

• HIT/HIE General Stakeholders
  • Meeting Schedule 2010
• Regional HIT Extension Center Advisory Group
  • 8-13-09 Memo

Health Information Technology Policy Links

• HIT / HIE & ARRA Updates 
• • 9-8-09 HIT/HIE & ARRA Update
  • 8-19-09 ANNOUNCEMENT
    • 8-19-09 Announcement Attachment #1
  • 8-19-09 HIT/HIE & ARRA Update
    • 8-19-09 Update - Attachment #1
    • 8-19-09 Update - Attachment #2
  • 7/20/09 HIT/HIE & ARRA Update
    • 7/20/09 Update - Attachment #1
  • 7/13/09 HIT/HIE & ARRA Update
  •   6/29/09 HIT/HIE & ARRA Update
    • 6-29-09 Update - Attachment #1
    • 6-29-09 Update - Attachment #2
    • 6-29-09 Update - Attachment #3
    • 6-29-09 Update - Attachment #4
• Computational Technology for Effective Health Care report by the National Research Council of the National Academies  (Jan. 2009)
• Vermont E-Prescribing Planning & Feasibility Study (Jan. 2009)

Links to Resources on HIT-HIE

• Federal Health Information Technology home Page
• National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices' State Alliance for eHealth
• The Health Information Security & Privacy Collaboration (HISPC)
• Additional Federal Privacy & Security Links
• Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)
• State Level Health Information Exchange Consensus Project
• National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC)
• Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT)
• Healthcare Information Technology Standards panel (HITSP)
• National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
• National Institutes of Standards & Technology (NIST)
• Federal Health Architecture (FHA)

Coordination of Health Information Technology Initiatives Related to the Federal ARRA HITECH Act: 

• HIE ARRA Workshop Agenda and Handouts (April 2009)
• ARRA HIT-HIE Workshop   PowerPoint (April 2009)
• HIT-ARRA Coordination Grid  (April 2009)

Other reports and links of interest to current Health Care Reform developments:

Vermont Health Care Reform Current Activities

• Summary of Health Care Reform Analysis  (8/10/2009)

National Health Policy Links

• Indexed Links to Complete Text of American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA)  (Feb. 2009)
• Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference for the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act -- Division A  (Feb. 2009)
• Text of the Conference Report -- Division A  (Feb. 2009)
• Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference for the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act -- Division B  (Feb. 2009)
• Text of the Conference Report -- Division B  (Feb. 2009)
• Congressional Budget Office Report on Key Issues in Health Care Reform (Dec. 2008)
• Congressional Budget Office Report on Options in Health Care Reform (Dec. 2008)