As the American Health Information Community (AHIC) transitioned into the new National eHealth Collaborative last year, it approved and released recommendations from the Quality Workgroup and a cross-disciplinary CDS planning workgroup.
The Collaborative builds on the accomplishments of the American Health Information Community (AHIC), a federal advisory committee established in 2005, and AHIC Successor, Inc.
Manderscheid, who served on an American Health Information Community task force that made recommendations to the federal government regarding PHRs for people with disabilities (see sidebar), says funding is the main reason behavioral healthcare lags behind the rest of healthcare in IT adoption.
Keaton was appointed by Mike Leavitt, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, to serve as a member of the bio-surveillance workgroup of the American Health Information Community.
RELATED ARTICLE: EHR Glossary The following are frequently used acronyms and their meanings related to the electronic health record: AHIC: American Health Information Community, a group appointed to advise the Secretary of Health & Human Services on healthcare IT issues.
While issuing the request for proposal, HHS also announced formation of the American Health Information Community (AHIC), a 17-member public/private organization that will give the department input and recommendations on making health records digital, interoperable, and secure.
Horan has served on the American Health Information Community (AHIC) Consumer Empowerment Workgroup and is currently engaged in several commercializing activities.
Efforts to achieve consensus on EBM have emerged from groups as diverse as the IOM Evidence-Based Medicine Roundtable and the Evidence-Based Practice Initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, as well as international programs such as the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, the Evidence-based Medicine Working Group and the American Health Information Community (AHIC).
