HITSP published a 115-page document on its online wiki.  The document merges its previous work on information exchange standards with Congress's eight "meaningful use" requirements on EHRs.

 Some of the eight requirements include:

• "Technologies that protect the privacy of health information and promote security in a qualified EHR...
• The utilization of a certified EHR for each person in the U.S. by 2014...
• Technologies (such as encryption) to render identifiable patient information “unusable, unreadable or indecipherable” to unauthorized individuals when such data are transmitted on a proposed national health information network.

• A nationwide health IT infrastructure for the use and exchange of healthcare information."

Full Article: http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20090731/REG/307319991