APTA is seeking a member with extensive health IT experience to be on this committee.
The 21st Century Cures Act established HITAC to provide 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 Act gave the Comptroller General of the United States responsibility for appointing a portion of HITAC’s members.
The Act requires that members at least reflect providers, ancillary health care workers,
consumers, purchasers, health plans, health information technology developers, researchers, patients, relevant Federal agencies, and individuals with technical expertise on health care quality, system functions, privacy, security, and on the electronic exchange and use of health information, including the use standards for such activity. GAO is now accepting nominations for HITAC appointments that will be effective January 1, 2022.
From these nominations, GAO expects to appoint at least 5 new HITAC members, focusing especially on health care providers, ancillary health care workers, health information technology developers, and patient advocates.
For a link to the GAO posting in the Federal Register, see:
2021-15136.pdf (govinfo.gov).
If interested, please submit a resume with relevant health IT experience. If selected by APTA, we will submit a nomination letter on your behalf to the agency.