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8. Promote and support innovation: Governance should create condi-
tions for innovation and should minimize administrative burdens so
as not to inhibit innovation.
9. Evaluation, learning, and continuous improvement: Evaluation of
governance should be appropriate and fair based on clear perfor-
mance guidelines.
ese recommendations were developed following an open comment
period in which the governance workgroup solicited comments on a
number of topics. e comment topics included governance experiences
from people who had implemented HIEs, especially how they established
authority and executed the governance process. Comments on experiences
with governance models in other domains were solicited as well, wit ...