The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA), a not-for-profit consortium that aims to improve health and care in North Carolina through health IT initiatives, announced on Sept. 13 its collaboration with the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) to maintain an electronic timeline that organizes proposed healthcare standards, regulations, and technology solutions announced by federal agencies and national standards organizations.
In March 2005, the NCHICA’s Timeline Task Force initiated the timeline to inform NCHICA members about upcoming deadlines and their potential impact and dependencies on other projects. The result was a critical path schedule with assumptions that enable organizations to supplement and inform their internal implementation plans.
The timeline database will be available for download on both the NCHICA and WEDI web sites in the near future. Both organizations are currently seeking sponsorship and support commitments for the project, which will help determine how often updates can be published.
