PCAST HIT Report Links

Below is a chronological listing of the Reports, Blogs, White Papers, Presentations, Demos, Program Announcements & Articles about PCAST Health IT Report: Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward and a New Exchange Architecture:

4/17/2013 Kitware to Develop a Universal Healthcare Exchange Language Infrastructure, News Center, PRWeb.
3/13/2013 W.A. Yasnoff, L. Sweeney, E.H. Shortliffe: Putting Health IT on the Path to Success, JAMA 309(10):989-990.
2/26/2013 NSF PA 13-543, Smart and Connected Health
1/23/2013 H. Velasquez: Health IT – PCAST Report on Health Information Technology
1/2013 K. Caine and R. Hanania: Patients Want Granular Privacy Control over Health Information in Electronic Medical Records. JAMIA, 20(1): 7-15.
7/10/2012 B. Robson: Health Standards and Scalability
6/20/2012 Data Segmentation for Privacy Workgroup, S & I Framework Initiative, Response to HITSC Recommendations related to PCAST Report
5/2012 MA Kean, AP Abernethy, AM Clark, WS Dalton, BH Pollock, LN Shulman, SB Murphy: Achieving Data Liquidity in the Cancer Community: Proposal for a Coalition of All Stakeholders, Discussion Paper, Institute of Medicine, National Academies of Science.
4/25/2012 DOD SBIR Solicitations: Prototype, Open Source Universal Health Exchange Language
3/14/2012 T.P. Caruso, CEO, Quantal Semantics, Inc. Transforming Health Research Through Use of a Secure Health Data Cloud, Presented AT Duke-UNC Health Informatics Seminar.
1/21/2012 L. Lenert, D. Sundwall, M.E. Lenert: Shifts in the architecture of the Nationwide Health Information Network, JAMIA 19(4): 489-502.
9/19/2011 DHHS ONC Health IT Buzz: ONC Launches Data Segmentation Initiative
9/15/2011 T.P. Caruso, Biomedical Informatics Think Tank: Regarding Metadata Standards to Support Nationwide Electronic Health Information Exchange, Comments TO Metadata Standards To Support Nationwide Electronic Health Information Exchange (45 CFR Part 170 RIN 0991â€“AB78)
9/15/2011 T.P. Caruso, Biomedical Informatics Think Tank™: No PHI
8/17/2011 DHHS ONC Health IT Buzz: Announcing Metadata Pilots to Realize PCAST Vision.
8/9/2011 DHHS ONC, 45 CFR Part 170, RIN 0991-AB78: “Metadata Standards to Support Nationwide Electronic Health Information Exchange -Advance notice of proposed rulemaking” – a solicitation for general comments on rulings related to PCAST report (also see the version in the Federal Register)
8/8/2011 Jason Goedert, Health Data Management: HHS Plans to Issue Rule on EHR Metadata Standards
7/25/2011 Rich Elmore, Initiative Coordinator, ONC: Distributed Population Queries: A National Priority – an indirect response to the PCAST report.
7/22/2011 ONC Standards & Interoperability: Query Health Initiative Wiki – an indirect response to the PCAST report.
7/13/2011 ONC Standards & Interoperability: Query Health Initiative Project Charter – an indirect response to the PCAST report.
6/30/2011 T.P. Caruso, Biomedical Informatics Think Tank™: Let’s Think Different!
6/27/2011 T.P. Caruso, Biomedical Informatics Think Tank™: Why Build a Health Data Cloud?
6/26/2011 T.P. Caruso, Biomedical Informatics Think Tank™: A Health Data Cloud is a Powerful Tool for Health Research
6/23/2011 H. Anderson, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com: ONC Wants Feedback on MetaData Use
5/28/2011 Healthcare Technology News: Think Different – the sequel
5/13/2011 Booz, Allen Hamilton: Realizing the Promise of Health Information Exchange
4/28/2011 T.P. Caruso, Biomedical Informatics Think Tank ™: Bad Googling in a Health Information Cloud
4/20/2011Â ONC Health IT Standards Committee PCAST Workgroup Presentation
4/19/2011 Jeff Rowe, HITECH Watch: Is it enough just to â€œkickstartâ€ the PCAST vision?
4/18/2011 Gov Health IT: Patient data access will kickstart PCAST exchange vision
4/16/2011 T.P. Caruso, Biomedical Informatics Think Tankâ„¢: The Never Identified Patient: Do you need to be identified when receiving healthcare services?
4/15/2011 T.P. Caruso, Biomedical Informatics Think Tank ™: Thinking â€œOut-of-the-Boxâ€ About a New Exchange Architecture
4/14/2011 Healthcare Info Security:Â ONC Plans Tests of New HIE Architecture
4/13/2011 ONC Health IT Policy Committee PCAST Workgroup Final Report and Transmittal Letter- Approved by ONC Health IT Policy Committee at the meeting on this date.
4/8/2011 Information Week Healthcare: T.P. Caruso comments on: Health IT Advisers Blast Data Exchange Policies
4/4/2011 iHealthBeat: Work Group Questions Recommendations in Federal PCAST Report
4/1/2011 Information Week Healthcare: Health IT Advisers Blast Data Exchange Policies
3/25/2011 Biomedical Informatics Think Tank ™: Secure Aggregation Model for a Universal Exchange Language
3/23/2011 John Halamka: The PCAST Use Cases
3/23/2011 Biomedical Informatics Think Tank ™: UEL Presentation to Health Informatics Pulse Meetup, Bethesda, MD
3/21/2011 Health IT News: Meaningful use work looks to PCAST exchange goals
3/21/2011 iHealthBeat: Meaningful Use Stage 2 Could Take Steps Toward PCAST Report Proposals
3/3/2011 SMART: How SMART addresses the PCAST Report on Health IT
3/3/2011 Bill Hersh, MD, Informatics Professor: PCAST Report: What’s the Big Deal?
3/2/2011 John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO: Freeing the Data
2/21/2011 John Loonsk, Government Health IT: Technical Elements of the PCAST Vision: Part II
2/20-24/2011 (HIMSS11) VA, SAMHSA, & Jerico Systems: Demo of the use of tagged data in the enforcement of patient privacy
2/19/2011 Wes Rischel: On Molecules, Buckets and the UEL
2/18/2011 Biomedical Informatics Think Tank ™: A Universal Exchange Language Supports Comparative Effectiveness and Biomedical Research
2/17/2011 John Halamka: The PCAST Hearing
2/15/2011 Healthcare Information Security: Presidential Council’s Proposal Portrayed as Impractical
2/13/2011 Wes Rischel: PCAST Opportunity: Documents vs. “Atomic Data Elements”
2/10/2011 R.E. Behrman, J.S. Benner, J.S. Brown, M.Â McClellan, J. Woodcock, and R. Platt. Developing the Sentinel System – A National Resource for Evidence Development, NEJM 364(6): 498-499.
2/8/2011 John Loonsk, MD, Government Health IT: The State of Health Information Technology According to PCAST: Part I
1/23/2011 Vince Kuratis: Comments to ONC: PCAST HIT Report Becomes a Political PiÃ±ata
1/24/2011 Keith Boone, @Motorcycle_Guy: Public Responses to the PCAST Report
1/13/2011 John D. Halamka, MD, CIO, Life as a Healthcare CIO: A Universal Exchange Language Example
1/11/2011 John D. Halamka, MD, CIO, Life as a Healthcare CIO: A Primer on XML, RDF, JSON, and Metadata
12/31/2010 Helen Oscislawski (Summary of PCAST Report)
12/29/2010 Chris Gibbons, Project HealthDesign National Advisory Committee Member: HIT Resistant Strains
12/8/2010 Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward.
6/2010 Myths and Fallacies of “Personally Identifiable Information”, Communications of the ACM 53(6): 24-26.
9/2009 V.N. Stroetmann (Ed.), D. Kalra, P. Lewalle, A. Rector, J.M. Rodrigues,Â K.A. Stroetmann, G. Surjan, B. Ustun, M. Virtanen, P.E. Zanstra. “Semantic Interoperability for Better Health and Safer Healthcare:Â Research and Deployment Roadmap for Europe“, SemanticHEALTH Report, funded by European Commission for Information Society and Media.

ONC PCAST Workgroup Past Meeting Materials

Letters to ONC or Statements to the ONC HIT Policy Committee on PCAST HIT Report:

PCAST HIT Report Links

T.P. Caruso Blog

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