Implementation and Adoption Hearings

Tomorrow from 9am to 4pm at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC, the Implementation Workgroup of the HIT Standards Committee will hold hearings to identify enablers and barriers to the adoption and implementation and standards.

We've assembled a great group from non-healthcare industries, providers, vendors and quality measurement organizations. Testimony will include

Non-Healthcare Industries Panel

Skip Best and Davis Miller, Covisint

Adam Bosworth, XML and SQL

Clarence So, Salesforce.com

Providers Panel

Andy Wiesenthal, MD, Kaiser Permanente (IDN)

Dick Taylor, MD, CMIO, Providence Health, Portland, OR (IDN)

Rick Warren, VP/CIO, Allegiance Health, MI (Community Hospital)

Lisa Bewley, RN, VP/CIO, Regional West Medical Center, Scotts Bluff, NE (Community Hospital)

Louis Spikol, MD, Allentown, PA (Small Practice)

Floyd "Tripp" Bradd, MD, Front Royal, VA (Small Practice)

Vendors Panel

Rick Ratliff, SureScripts

Arien Malec, Relay Health

Sean Nolan, MicroSoft

Girish Kuman, eClinicalWorks

Chris Stevens, Orion Health

Quality Measures Panel

Ralph Brindis, American College of Cardiology

Richard Gliklich, CEO, Outcome Sciences

Jesse Singer, NYC Health

Barbara Rabson, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners

Jack Bowhan, Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality

What kind of testimony can you expect?

In non-healthcare industries, standards have been used to coordinate the supply chain. What tools and techniques were used to encourage the entire manufacturing ecosystem to participate?

Do we need better educational materials such as implementation guides that include all the base standards so that there is no "indirection" - jumping between implementation guide websites and standards development organization websites?

Are there gaps in standards that need to be filled to encourage adoption in different healthcare environments?

The real purpose to the meeting is to encourage transparency and build a feedback loop that connects real world users of standards with the organizations that govern and create standards development.

During the meeting we'll kick off a new website that will enable the public to post comments about standards, privacy, and implementation experiences, including the ability to rank ideas via social networking tools. I'll post the URL to the new website tomorrow.

To participate in the meeting, join by audio conference or webcast.

I look forward to hearing your feedback!