Thursday, December 17, 2009

ONC delays lab standards

Meaningful use still remains a mystery after Tuesday's Health IT Policy Committee meeting and standards for electronic laboratory orders have been pushed off until next month.

David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, asked the advisory Health IT Policy Committee to defer until January a decision on whether to allow temporary variations in those standards to be used.

The policy committee had recommended providers start using in 2011 a single set of national standards for communicating electronically with labs, one of the tenets of the administration’s meaningful use policy to encourage the use of health IT.

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/onc-delays-lab-standards

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