[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 116 (Friday, June 17, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-14776]
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[Federal Register: June 17, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
[Docket No. 940370-4070]
Announcement of an Opportunity To Join a Cooperative Research and
Development Agreement on Healthcare Information Technology
Architecture Standards (HITAS)
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
invites interested parties to participate in a Cooperative Research and
Development Agreement (CRADA) to establish a healthcare information
system. The infrastructure will include application platform,
application software, storage, human/computer interaction, and
communication technologies. It will share medical information while
maintaining confidentiality of patient data.
Through the CRADA, called the ``Forum on Healthcare Information
Technology Architecture Standards'', NIST will provide the mechanism
for industry and users to resolve standards-related technical issues
that currently inhibit deployment of medical information technology
products. Parties interested in participating in the CRADA should be
prepared to invest adequate resources in the collaboration and be
firmly committed to the goal of rapid development and deployment of new
healthcare information technology.
The program will be within the scope and confines of The Federal
Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-502, 15 U.S.C. 3710a),
which provides federal laboratories including NIST, with the authority
to enter into cooperative research agreements with qualified parties.
Under this law, NIST may contribute personnel, equipment and
facilities--but no funds--to the cooperative research program. Members
will be expected to make a contribution to the forum's efforts in the
form of materials, equipment, personnel, and/or funds. The program is
expected to last three years. This is not a grant program.
DATES: Detailed planning for the consortium began on March 1, 1994.
Interested parties should contact NIST to confirm their interest at the
address, telephone number or FAX number shown below no later than July
15, 1994.
ADDRESSES: Mr. F. Schulz, Building 225, Room B-266, National Institute
of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:Mr. F. Schulz, Telephone: 301-975-2192;
FAX 301-926-3696.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) invites interested parties to participate in a forum
to establish a healthcare information system infrastructure. Through
the CRADA, NIST will provide a venue and process for industry and users
to resolve standards-related technical issues.
This project is based upon a shared, global vision of a large scale
distributed healthcare information infrastructure which will encompass
application platform, application software, storage, human/computer
interaction, and communication technologies, integrated via object
oriented middleware. The new infrastructure will share medical
information while maintaining the security and confidentiality of
patient data.
The CRADA will also provide links among the user requirement-driven
Open Systems Environment Implementors Workshop (OIW), the consensus-
driven base standards community, and the market-driven technical
community to reduce time-to-market for complex technical products
requiring simultaneous consensus in a variety of technical areas.
International market input from the workshops and the standards
community are crucial to meeting government and industry objectives for
common solutions across the global marketplace. Coordination with
accredited U.S. and international standards groups is an important
aspect of this partnership.
Participants will be assured of the technical and economic
feasibility of the resultant technical products. This will accelerate
acceptance of the specifications, promote rapid development of
commercial products, and contribute to earlier deployment of technology
to meet user needs.
Dated: June 13, 1994.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 94-14776 Filed 6-16-94; 8:45 am]
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