What need is FHA addressing?
FHA provides a collaborative forum for federal agencies involved in health IT activities. FHA helps to gain the federal perspective in the areas of standards harmonization, compliance certification, nationwide health information network architecture, security and privacy, and EHR adoption in addition to other federal health IT areas. FHA provides federal input to the President’s health IT plan, assists agencies in implementing new opportunities that have been identified by the American Health Information Community (“The Community”), and supports OMB to ensure accountability for health IT investments.
