Office of the Secretary December 1, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has reorganized its substructure components in order to more effectively meet the mission outlined by The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The reorganization affects all four of the original Director-level offices: the Office of Health Information Technology Adoption (OHITA); the Office of Interoperability and Standards (OIS); Office of Programs and Coordination (OPC); and the Office of Policy and Research (OPR). The new organizational structure is composed of five offices with direct reporting capability to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (National Coordinator): the Office of Economic Modeling and Analysis; the Office of the Chief Scientist; the Office of the Deputy National Coordinator for Programs & Policy; the Office of the Deputy National Coordinator for Operations, and the Office of the Chief Privacy Officer.

The Department of Defense is withdrawing the final rule published on October 29, 2009 (74 FR 55781-55782), which updated the Defense Logistics Agency Privacy Act Program Rules, 32 CFR part 323, by replacing the (k)(2) exemption with a (k)(5) exemption for their Defense Logistics Agency Criminal Incident Reporting System Records.