From the website: "The Office of the National Coordinator for HIT has issued a request for information on establishing a governance mechanism for the emerging Nationwide Health Information Network. The mechanism will include common rules expressing technical, privacy and security, and business practice requirements to create a consistent trust baseline for stakeholders, according to a PowerPoint presentation from ONC. “In the absence of national guidance, states and other private sector stakeholders/consortiums are beginning to develop state/consortium-unique and potentially conflicting governance approaches to electronic health information exchange.” Read more
See also
Nationwide Health Information Network: Conditions for Trusted Exchange, a Proposed Rule by the Health and Human Services Department on
May 15, 2012.
Posnack, Steven and Kate Berry. "Building the Proposed Rule: An Overview of the Governance RFI. " National eHealth Collaborative, May 11, 2012.
