FARMINGTON, Conn., Nov. 29, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body for organizations that electronically exchange healthcare data, today announced that Capt. Alicia A. Morton, DNP, RN-BC has been appointed an EHNAC commissioner ex officio through 2020. She is an active-duty registered nurse in the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps, stationed at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) as the director of the Health IT Certification Program.
Capt. Morton joins an EHNAC Commission comprised of an executive director, an operations vice president and fifteen healthcare industry leaders including stakeholders and consumer representatives from private and public-sector organizations.
“We’re honored that Capt. Morton has joined us as an EHNAC commissioner and welcome her strategic guidance during the commission’s growth into new markets – both in the U.S. and globally,” said Lee Barrett, executive director of EHNAC. “She brings an inspiring background of public service from her roles in both the U.S. Navy and USPHS, as well as at the ONC, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In addition, her insights as a doctorally prepared and board-certified informatics nurse will be invaluable to EHNAC’s mission of ensuring the highest standards of patient data privacy, security and integrity.”
Capt. Morton joined the ONC in 2005 to lead the contract for the first voluntary EHR certification program and has worked in a variety of roles within several ONC offices. Most recently, she served as the deputy chief medical officer alongside Dr. Jacob Reider and a senior advisor to the Office of Standards & Technology.
Prior to joining ONC, Capt. Morton was stationed at CMS where she managed the systems development component of the Doctor’s Office Quality-Information Technology (DOQ-IT) project. She was the lead technical project manager for the Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI) initiative and integral to the Vista Office EHR project. In addition to her technical expertise, Capt. Morton has more than nine years of full-time clinical nursing experience, during which she gained first-hand experience utilizing EHR systems. From 1999-2003, she was a senior clinical research nurse at the NIH Clinical Center on a bone marrow transplant/hematology & oncology unit. From 1994 to 1999 she served on active duty in the U.S. Navy stationed at the National Naval Medical Center Bethesda and aboard the USNS Comfort.
About EHNAC
The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) is a voluntary, self-governing standards development organization (SDO) established to develop standard criteria and accredit organizations that electronically exchange healthcare data. These entities include accountable care organizations, data registries, electronic health networks, EPCS vendors, e-prescribing solution providers, financial services firms, health information exchanges, health information service providers, management service organizations, medical billers, outsourced service providers, payers, practice management system vendors and third-party administrators. The Commission is an Approved HITRUST CSF™ Assessor, making it the only organization with the ability to provide both EHNAC accreditation and HITRUST CSF™ certification.
EHNAC was founded in 1993 and is a tax-exempt 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization. Guided by peer evaluation, the EHNAC accreditation process promotes quality service, innovation, cooperation and open competition in healthcare. To learn more, visit www.ehnac.org, contact info@ehnac.org, or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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