The Department of Health and Human Services has unveiled the final copy of the 2024–2030 Federal Health IT Strategy.
Through the strategy released on Sept. 30, HHS aims to improve care procedures for patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, public health officials and others throughout the healthcare community using IT.
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The assistant secretary for technology policy within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology worked alongside more than 25 federal agencies to produce the strategic roadmap. They then turned to members of industry for comments on the March-published draft.
The 4 Tenets of HHS’ IT Strategy
The HHS health IT plan focuses on four goals — promoting health and wellness, enhancing the delivery and experience of care, accelerating research and innovation and connecting health systems with health data.
Micky Tripathi, assistant secretary for technology policy and national coordinator for health IT at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said, “The release of our latest health IT strategy is a culmination of partnerships across the federal government to examine the forces shaping the healthcare ecosystem today and to craft a set of strategies to guide how to prioritize resources, align and coordinate federal health IT initiatives and activities, signal priorities to industry and benchmark and assess progress over time.”
The fourth goal, which aims to bring connectivity throughout all domain areas, will promote advanced communication principles for caregivers and physicians.
Michele Ellison, general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission and chair of the company’s Connect2Health task force, said, “The plan recognizes how our health system can benefit from cutting-edge communications infrastructure, particularly in rural and underserved areas – enabling us to better engage individuals, their caregivers and physicians across the care continuum and drive high-quality care while lowering cost.”
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