Joseph Conn reports in Modern Healthcare.com that the American Health Information Community (AHIP) at its October 31 meeting gratefully accepted the Health Information Technology Standards Panel’s work product: “22 standards and eight implementation specifications to support data transmissions in three areas selected by AHIC: to move lab data into electronic health-records systems; to populate personal health records with a patient’s medication history and basic information to facilitate registration; and to speed the transfer of healthcare information from providers to public-health authorities for biosurveillance.” He also reports controversy over the lab data transfer standards.