HHS has issued a six-page report outlining its healthcare information technology accomplishments for a two-year period beginning in 2004, when President Bush declared that Americans should have access to an electronic medical record by 2014 and established the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology within HHS to make that happen.
Among the "major accomplishments" listed are contracts with the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology to test and certify IT systems, the Health Information Technology Standards Panel to harmonize IT standards for specific use cases and four consortia for the development of prototypes of a National Health Information Network.
