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- Hung S. Luu, MD, PharmD, FCAP, Reappointed to Federal Health Information Technology Committee
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently reappointed Hung S. Luu, MD, PharmD, FCAP, to the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) for a second term. Dr. Luu was first appointed to the HITAC in 2022.
HITAC advises the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP, formerly known as ONC) on policies, standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for implementing health information technology infrastructures that advance the electronic access, exchange, and use of health information.
Dr. Luu is chair of the CAP Informatics Committee. He is the Director of Clinical Pathology at Children’s Health, a health system with hospitals in Plano and Dallas, Texas. Dr. Luu also is 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 Systemic Harmonization and Interoperability Enhancement for Laboratory Data (SHIELD) initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative to improve laboratory data quality, interoperability, and portability.