Saying its mission has been accomplished, the National Alliance for Health Information Technology will cease operations on Sept. 30.
The Chicago-based organization formed in early 2002 to develop industry consensus on voluntary standards for health I.T. Gary Mecklenburg, at the time president and CEO of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare in Chicago, was a driving force along with the American Hospital Association, which Mecklenburg chaired. When publicly announced the group had 30 members representing providers, insurers, software vendors and suppliers.
During the past seven years, NAHIT co-founded the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology; formed the Healthcare Supply Chain Standards Coalition that later merged with GS1 Healthcare US; created a public directory of health I.T. standards; successfully pushed for mandated bar codes to identify medications and developed consensus-based definitions for core health I.T. terms under a federal government contract.
Now, other organizations, including the AHA and College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, are better positioned to help providers with I.T. implementation issues, says Jane Horowitz, COO of NAHIT. Her future plans are not yet definite.
More information is available at nahit.org.
--Joseph Goedert
AUG 17, 2009 12:09pm ET
NAHIT to Close Doors
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