EHNAC HIE Forum Open to Public - Postponed - Details Will Be Released Soon

FARMINGTON, Conn. - EHNAC (Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission), the leading accreditation standards organization for Electronic Healthcare Networks, is holding a public forum. This meeting seeks to solicit input from both public and private sector stakeholders regarding the development of a health information exchange (HIE) accreditation program that centers around privacy and security policy and business practices.

EHNAC recently commissioned a market scan to assess the barriers and benefits of such an accreditation program. The market scan included perspectives from consumers, federal government, states, hospitals, labs, long term care, payers, physicians, and health information technology vendors. EHNAC will provide an overview of the market scan findings and make the report available to the public at this forum and on its website after the meeting. This is an opportunity for stakeholders to assist in developing a policy and best practices accreditation framework for HIE’s. EHNAC invites you to be a part of this ground breaking discussion and hopes you can participate

Meeting Logistics:
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008
Time: 1-3:30pm EST
Location: Hyatt Regency Baltimore on the Inner Harbor, 300 Light St., Baltimore, Maryland
Cost: No cost to attend
RSVP: Please email Debra Hopkinson @ This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it by 5/13/08 to register to participate

New Commissioner: Greg Fisher

FARMINGTON, Conn. - Greg Fisher is currently Director of EDI Strategy and Business Development at UnitedHealthcare. His current role involves planning EDI growth activities, managing EDI vendor contracting, and long term planning for EDI standards and interoperability for UHC and its affiliated companies.

Mr. Fisher has been involved in healthcare EDI for 24 years, as a technician and as a subject matter expert at UnitedHealthcare and Travelers Insurance companies. He has worked on various internal projects involving disability management, Medicare and commercial health claim systems. He led a business analysis team that provided initial specifications for the conversion to the 4010a1 HIPAA claim transactions, as well as providing guidance on the interpretation of the HIPAA regulations for Transactions and Code Sets.

EHNAC Accredits First e-Prescribing Network

FARMINGTON, Conn. - Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) announced RxHub as the first e-Prescribing value added network to receive accreditation. In achieving accreditation, RxHub submitted to an in-depth independent evaluation of their ability to perform at the highest level of standards for the transmission of health information across their e-Prescribing network.

"RxHub is the first to join a select group of value added networks that have demonstrated their ability to deliver services consistent with the only standards in the industry that measure the overall business practices of an e-Prescribing network," said Lee Barrett, Executive Director of EHNAC.

New Jersey Mandates Use of Accredited Clearinghouses

EHNAC has been recognized by the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance as a national standards development organization that is qualified to measure the HIPAA and NJ HINT privacy and security competency, assets, practices and procedures of health care clearinghouses that transact business in New Jersey in accordance with N.J.A.C. 11:22-3.8.

Effective December 2, 2006, the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance will require health care payers that use a clearinghouse to handle state based health claims to ensure that the clearinghouse is properly accredited as to HIPAA and NJ HINT privacy, security and other measures of competence. The regulation appears in the June 5, 2006 New Jersey Register at 38 N.J.R. 2501 and at http://www.state.nj.us/dobi/adopt.htm.