ONC names privacy, security workgroup members

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT named 17 people to the newly formed privacy and security workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee, panels that are advising ONC on shaping its health IT agenda. The work group will be co-chaired by Deven McGraw, director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Rachel Block, executive director of the New York eHealth Collaborative and deputy commissioner for health IT transformation at the New York State Department of Health. Their team will advise the Policy Committee on such matters as how safeguards for the exchange of health information should fit into the "meaningful use" test for health IT incentives that ONC has been working on.