TPJ & HITSP
TPJ Systems is proud to be a member of HITSP.
The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) is a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors. The Panel was formed for the purpose of harmonizing and integrating standards that will meet clinical and business needs for sharing information among organizations and systems.
About HITSP
The mission of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel is to serve as a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors for the purpose of achieving a widely accepted and useful set of standards specifically to enable and support widespread interoperability among healthcare software applications, as they will interact in a local, regional and national health information network for the United States. HITSP is committed to an open and transparent mode of operation:
- membership and participation is open to all interested parties;
- work products are published for public review and comment before approval,
- and all meetings are open for membership participation.
Founded October 6, 2005
HITSP is a strategic partnership established through a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Leadership
- HITSP Chairman Dr. John Halamka Chief Information Officer Harvard Medical School HITSP Vice Chairman
- Dr. William Braithwaite Health Information Policy Consulting
Membership
Membership on the Panel is open to groups within any of four major categories. The current allocation of membership (data as of September 2009) is:
- Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) 4%
- Non-SDOs 85%
- Government Bodies 6%
- Consumer Groups 3%
- Project Team Members (non-voting) 2%
- Total 100%
There is no fee to participate in the HITSP or its committees. Registration is required.
Program of Work
The Panel's work is driven by a series of priorities (i.e., Use Cases) issued by the American Health Information Community (AHIC). HITSP produces recommendations and reports in Interoperability Specifications and related Constructs. These work products are intended to be equally applicable to the developing Nationwide Health Information Network for the United States (NHIN) and also to community and regional health information exchange networks.
Sponsor
HITSP is administered by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in cooperation with strategic partners including the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI), and Booz Allen Hamilton.
Structure
The HITSP organizational structure is aligned to meet the harmonization needs generated by an increasing number and expanding scope of Use Cases and the need to maintain consistency across Interoperability Specifications and Constructs. Perspective Technical Committees are focused on Use Cases defined by the primary stakeholder group (i.e., provider, population and consumer).