CCHIT names oncology, women's health workgroups

The Certification Commission for Healthcare IT (CCHIT) has selected two new, all-volunteer work group panels to develop criteria for EHRs in women’s health and in oncology, the latest domains to be added to CCHIT’s independently-developed certification programs. The Chicago-based organization also announced new certification programs for Behavioral Health, Dermatology and Long-Term and Post-Acute Care.

The volunteers–13 for women’s health and 15 for oncology–were appointed by CCHIT following an open application process. To achieve an even higher level of accountability and transparency, CCHIT limits health IT vendor participation on the Commission’s work groups to no more than 33 percent, including any provider applicants who may receive compensation from a vendor.

The Women’s Health and Oncology Work Groups will meet for the first time July 14 in Chicago where they will receive the Commission’s guidance for their upcoming work. These new certification programs are expected to be available by spring of 2011.

The new Women’s Health work group members are:
Co-chairs:

• Jan Kriebs, director of midwifery and assistant professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore; and
• Michael McCoy, MD, CMIO, Catholic Health East in Newton Square, Pa.

Members:

• William Bates, MD, CEO, digiChart in Brentwood, Tenn.;
• Bryan Cowan, MD, professor, University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Miss.;
• Mary Veronica Daly, MD, compliance officer, Lifeline Medical Associates in Parsippany, N.J.;
• Robert Fagnant, MD, physician, Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City;
• Karisha Fenton, Michigan delivery systems and support project leader, BlueCross Blue Shield of Michigan in Detroit;
• Carol George, RN, strategist, Cerner of Kansas City, Mo.;
• Dorothy Hodges, RN, EMR clinical manager, North Florida OB/GYN and Associates of Jacksonville, Fla.;
• Joshua Kopelman, MD, District VIII chair, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Washington, D.C.;
• Sherry Reynolds, executive director, Alliance4Health in Seattle;
• Stelle Smith, director of women’s health, NextGen Healthcare of Atlanta; and
• Anthony Werner, COO, Western OB/GYN of Waconia, Minn.

The new Oncology work group members are:
Co-chairs:

• Pawan Goyal, MD, CMO, Hewlett Packard Federal Healthcare of Palo Alto, Calif.; and
• Peter Yu, MD, director of cancer research, Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Palo Alto, Calif.

Members:

• Bruce Curran, associate chief medical physicist, Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, R.I.;
• Sonya Curtis, clinical informatics senior manager, Sage Software of Irvine, Calif.;
• Gina Franco, survivorship project manager, clinical oncology NP, Gibbs Cancer Center in Spartanburg, S.C.;
• Joel Goldwein, MD, senior vice president and director, Medical Affairs, Elekta in Norcross, Ga.;
• Peter Harrison, MD, manager, physician products, US Oncology in the Woodlands, Texas;
• Robert Hauser, PhD, vice president of informatics, International Oncology Network, AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group in Frisco, Texas;
• Len Lichtenfeld, MD, deputy chief medical officer, American Cancer Society in Atlanta;
• Rick Mansour, MD, CMIO, Eclipsys in Atlanta;
• Robert Miller, MD, clinical associate; physician advisor in the department of oncology, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore;
• Larry Shulman, MD, CMO, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston;
• Nancy Sklarin, MD, director of clinical operations of the Breast Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City;
• Jennette Tran, director, Cardinal Health of Dublin, Ohio; and
• Carol Yarrington, oncology pharmacy coordinator, St. Joseph Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, Mich.