From the article: "The Certification Commission for Health
Information Technology (CCHIT) believes a private-public
partnership would be better to run the future Nationwide Health Information
Network (NwHIN), rather than a federal body alone.
According to Karen Bell, MD, chair of CCHIT and former director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Office of Health Information Technology Adoption, governance of the NwHIN would need stakeholders from all angles of the project, including public health officials, providers, consumers and even third party users outside of the federal government." Read more
See also
CCHIT website. CCHIT Public Comment on ONC’s NwHIN Governance Request for Information, June 25, 2012. 