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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
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Formations of, Acquisitions by, and
Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
The companies listed in this notice
have applied to the Board for approval,
pursuant to the Bank Holding Company
Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)
(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part
225), and all other applicable statutes
and regulations to become a bank
holding company and/or to acquire the
assets or the ownership of, control of, or
the power to vote shares of a bank or
bank holding company and all of the
banks and nonbanking companies
owned by the bank holding company,
including the companies listed below.
The applications listed below, as well
as other related filings required by the
Board, are available for immediate
inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank
indicated. The application also will be
available for inspection at the offices of
the Board of Governors. Interested
persons may express their views in
writing on the standards enumerated in
the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the
proposal also involves the acquisition of
a nonbanking company, the review also
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, August 1, 2006.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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includes whether the acquisition of the
nonbanking company complies with the
standards in section 4 of the BHC Act
(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise
noted, nonbanking activities will be
conducted throughout the United States.
Additional information on all bank
holding companies may be obtained
from the National Information Center
website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
Unless otherwise noted, comments
regarding each of these applications
must be received at the Reserve Bank
indicated or the offices of the Board of
Governors not later than August 31,
2006.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
(Andre Anderson, Vice President) 1000
Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia
30309:
1. Piedmont Community Bank Group,
Inc., Gray, Georgia; to become a bank
holding company by acquiring 100
percent of the voting shares of Piedmont
Community Bank, Gray, Georgia.
Notice of Availability: Secretarial
Recognition of Certain Certification
Commission for Healthcare
Information Technology (CCHIT)
Functionality, Interoperability, Security
and Reliability Criteria for Ambulatory
Electronic Health Records
AGENCY:
Office of the Secretary, HHS.
Authority: EO 13335 (‘‘Incentives for the
Use of Health Information Technology and
Establishing the Position of the National
Health Information Technology
Coordinator’’) and Pub. L. 109–149
(‘‘Departments of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006’’).
SUMMARY: By this document we are
informing the public of the Secretary’s
recognition of certain Certification
Commission for Healthcare Information
Technology (CCHIT) criteria for
ambulatory EHR functionality,
interoperability, security and reliability
standards. This list of recognized
criteria is available by clicking the
applicable link at https://www.hhs.gov/
healthit.
The CCHIT was created in 2004 by an
industry coalition of the American
Health Information Management
Association (AHIMA), the Health
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Information and Management Systems
Society (HIMSS) and the National
Alliance for Health Information
Technology. CCHIT’s mission is to
accelerate the adoption of HIT by
creating an efficient, credible and
sustainable product certification
program.
During the three comment cycles that
generated the ambulatory EHR criteria
that the Secretary has recognized,
CCHIT received over 1500 comments
from a wide range of stakeholders.
Further outreach was achieved through
the establishment of several large Town
Hall presentations with attendances in
the range of 500–1000 at Healthcare
Information Management Systems
Society (HIMSS) conferences as well as
at more than thirty smaller
presentations to a variety of
associations, organizations and the press
gatherings.
CCHIT grouped its ambulatory EHR
certification criteria recommendations
into three groups, ‘‘functionality,’’
‘‘interoperability’’ and ‘‘security/
reliability.’’ For ease of understanding,
the Secretary broke the security and
reliability recommendations into
separate categories. Definitions of these
categories, and an example that
illuminates the various functions of
each category are as follows:
1. Functionality criteria identify
minimum required and provisional
product features for documenting and
managing a typical patient encounter.
For example, a physician needs to be
able to access his/her patient’s
laboratory test results, so an example of
a functional requirement is that an EHR
would need to provide the capability of
displaying laboratory test results.
2. Interoperability criteria establish
standards for how products interact
with other products within and across
care settings. For example, to ensure
interoperability, the physician EHR
noted above would need to be able to
receive laboratory test results from
another physician’s (within care
settings) as well as from laboratory
systems (across care settings).
3. Security and reliability criteria are
designed to help the security inspector
assess a product’s ability to protect,
manage and audit access to sensitive
patient data. For clarity, we have broken
these criteria into the two separate
categories, security and reliability.
a. Security 1 addresses the appropriate
access to data by appropriate parties and
the protection of data from improper
manipulation. For example, laboratory
test results should be accessible to a
1 HHS notes that the requirements of the HIPAA
Security Rule continue to be applicable.
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding
Companies
The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for
approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C.
1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 225), and all other
applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company
and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the
power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the
banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company,
including the companies listed below.
The applications listed below, as well as other related filings
required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the
Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The application also will be available
for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested
persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated
in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the
acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also includes whether
the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards
in section 4 of the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise noted,
nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States.
Additional information on all bank holding companies may be obtained
from the National Information Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these
applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the
offices of the Board of Governors not later than August 31, 2006.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Andre Anderson, Vice President)
1000 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30309:
1. Piedmont Community Bank Group, Inc., Gray, Georgia; to become a
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of
Piedmont Community Bank, Gray, Georgia.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 1,
2006.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E6-12608 Filed 8-3-06; 8:45 am]
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