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A Report on Three Consumer Focus Group Meetings Convened in October, 2005 by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation By: Susan Kanaan Suzie Burke-Bebee Helga E. Rippen U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
This paper describes the work that will examine how Health Information Exchange (HIE) is occurring between health delivery systems and unaffiliated post-acute and long-term care settings and factors that promote or hinder the exchange. [1 PDF page]
Marcelline R. Harris, RN, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic Christopher G. Chute, MD, Dr.P.H., Mayo Clinic Jennie Harvell, M.Ed., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Alan White, Ph.D., Abt Associates
[Federal Register: August 17, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 160)] [Final Rule] [Page 50312-50372] [DOCID:fr17au00R] DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Office of the Secretary 45 CFR Parts 160 and 162
Why have national standards for electronic health care transactions been adopted and why are they required?Congress and the health care industry have agreed that standards for the electronic exchange of administrative and financial health care transactions are needed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the health care system.
Federal Register: November 3, 1999 [Proposed Rules] [Pages 59918-60065] [DOCID:fr03no99P] DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Office of the Secretary 45 CFR Parts 160 through 164 Rin: 0991-AB08
[Federal Register: August 12, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 155)] [Proposed Rules] [Page 43241-43280] [DOCID:fr12au98P] DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Office of the Secretary 45 CFR Part 142 [HCFA-0049-P] RIN 0938-AI57 Security and Electronic Signature Standards