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- Dr. Luu Appointed to Federal Health Information Technology Committee
On December 20, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) appointed Hung Luu, MD, FCAP, and six others to the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC). Dr. Luu will serve a three-year terms and may be reappointed for subsequent three-year terms. The CAP nominated Dr. Luu for the HITAC as he is an active member of the informatics and standards committee at the CAP.
The HITAC will advise the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on policies, standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria relating to implementing a health information technology infrastructure that advances the electronic access, exchange, and use of health information.
Dr. Luu is the Director of Clinical Pathology at Children’s Health, a health system with hospitals in Plano and Dallas, Texas. Dr. Luu is also an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He serves as the co-chair of the implementation committee for the Food and Drug Administration’s SHIELD initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative to improve laboratory data quality, interoperability, and portability.