Federal Health Architecture (FHA)
Federal Participation
FHA participates in various meetings and activities that are relevant to federal health IT issues or that have overall implications in support of the President's health IT plan. The diagram below shows that FHA provides input into and supports national health infrastructure activities such as standards development, certification, nationwide health information networks, security and privacy, and HIT adoption. The outcome of the efforts will result in an infrastructure that will enable the exchange of health data consistently and accurately between the private and public sectors, from which a federal infrastructure will be derived.
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Graphic description of diagram: The flow of the diagram is left to right. An arrow depicts movement of federal input into a process that is represented by a circle, with the output being interoperability between the federal and private sectors. The inputs into the circle represent expertise from federal agencies, HITPC and FHA (coordinated federal voice) and AHIC recommendations. The circle represents the national health IT infrastructure which has the following components: standards (HITSP), network (NHIN), certification (CCHIT), security and privacy (HISPC) and HIT adoption. Across the bottom of the diagram, the three main goal headings of the FHA are listed: input, implementation and accountability.
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The levels of participation for FHA throughout the federal health IT community are to observe, provide comment, participate in or lead federal health IT activity. Below is the list of organizations and groups in which FHA participates.
HIT Organization |
Sub-Committees or Work Groups within HIT Organizations |
American Health Information Community (AHIC) |
- The Community
- Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
- Biosurveillance
- Consumer Empowerment
- Chronic Care
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Health IT Standards Panel (HITSP) |
- Board
- Panel
- Readiness
- EHR Technical Committee
- Biosurveillance Technical Committee
- Consumer Empowerment Technical Committee
- International Landscape
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Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) |
- Commission
- Ambulatory EHR Functionality
- Inpatient EHR Functionality
- Interoperability
- Security and Reliability
- Commercial Certification Process Advisory
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National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) |
- Full Committee
- Executive Committee - Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Workgroup
- Privacy & Confidentiality Subcommittee
- Standards & Security Subcommittee
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Health IT Policy Council (HITPC) |
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Department of Health & Human Services -HITPC |
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Federal Health Architecture Response Teams |
- NHIN Review Team
- HITSP Review Team
- CCHIT Review Team
- Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI)
- CHI Allergy Domain Sub-Group
- CHI Disability Domain Sub-Group
- CHI Multimedia Domain Sub-Group
- EHR
- Food Safety
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