Category Archives: AHIC

AHIC’s Successor

The public/private successor to AHIC and what form the future AHIC will take is being publicly discussed with presentation by Dr. Kolodner containing possible governance models here. Will Free and Open Source Software be prepresented? Are the minions of FOSS on the march? “American Health Information Community (AHIC) is a federal advisory body, chartered in 2005 to make recommendations to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on how to accelerate the development and adoption of health information technology. AHIC was formed by the Secretary to help advance efforts to achieve President Bush�s goal for most Americans to have access to secure electronic health records by 2014.”