2020-2025
Federal Health IT
Strategic Plan
Overview

Presented by ONC Leadership

2Agenda
1. Remarks from the National Coordinator
2. Background & Plan Development
3. Plan Overview
4. Measuring & Communicating Progress
5. Question & Answer

3Remarks from theNational Coordinator4Remarks from the National Coordinator“ In today’s digital world,
patients’ right to control theirhealth must include the rightto access and control theirhealth information.”
Dr. Donald Rucker,
National Coordinator for Health IT

5Background & PlanDevelopment

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Statutory Authority
Section 3001(c)(3) of the Public HealthService Act, as added by the Health
Information Technology for Economic andClinical Health (HITECH) Act, requires theNational Coordinator for Health Information
Technology (ONC) to update the Federal
Health IT Strategic Plan in consultation withother appropriate federal agencies and incollaboration with private and public entities.

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The Plan’s Intended Use:

1

Prioritize
Resources2

Align andCoordinate
Efforts3

SignalPriorities to thePrivate Sector

4

Benchmarkand Assess
Progress

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Key Sources of Input in Plan Development

Workgroups guided
development of goals
and objectives.

Public Comments
were accepted fromJanuary to April 2020.

FederalPartners

PublicComment

HITAC

The Health Information
Technology Advisory
Committee provided
recommendations.

9Federal Contributors

10Plan Overview

11Nuts and Bolts of the Plan
Letter from the National Coordinator
Vision & Mission
Federal Health Principles
Introduction
Challenges & Opportunities
Goals, Objectives, & Strategies

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Federal Health IT Vision and Mission

FEDERAL HEALTH IT

FEDERAL HEALTH ITVision

MissionA health system that uses information
to engage individuals, lower costs,
deliver high quality care, and improve
individual and population health.

Improve the health and well-beingof individuals and communities usingtechnology and health information that isaccessible when and where it matters most.

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Federal Health Principles

Putindividuals
firstFocus
on value

Build a culture ofsecure access tohealth information

Put research
into action

Encourage
innovation andcompetition

Be aresponsible
steward

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Challenges in Healthcare

Increasing
Healthcare
Spending

Poor
HealthOutcomes

Increasing Rates ofMental Illness andSubstance Use Disorders

Accessto CareAccess toTechnology

Access toElectronic Health
Information

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Opportunities in a Digital Health System

Empowering
Patients

Reducing Regulatory and
Administrative Burden

Moving to
Value-Based Care

AdvancingInteroperability

Protecting Privacy ofHealth Information

Promoting
New Technologies

Securing HealthInformation

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Strategic Framework
GOAL

1GOAL2GOAL3

Promote Health and Wellness
Enhance the Deliveryand Experience of Care
Build a Secure, Data-Driven
Ecosystem to Accelerate
Research and Innovation

GOAL

4

Connect
Healthcare
withHealth Data

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Goal 1: Promote Health and Wellness• Objective 1a:
Improve individual access to usable health information• Objective 1b:
Advance healthy and safe practices through health IT• Objective 1c:
Integrate health and human services information

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Goal 2: Enhance the Delivery and Experience of Care

• Objective 2a:
Leverage health IT to improve
clinical practice and promotesafe, high-quality care
• Objective 2b:
Use health IT to expand accessand connect patients to care
• Objective 2c:
Foster competition, transparency,
and affordability in healthcare• Objective 2d:
Reduce regulatory
and administrative burden
on providers• Objective 2e:Enable efficient managementof health IT resources and anationwide workforce
confidently using health IT

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Goal 3: Build a Secure, Data-Driven Ecosystem
to Accelerate Research and Innovation• Objective 3a:
Advance individual- and population-level transfer ofhealth data
• Objective 3b:
Support research and analysis using health IT anddata at the individual and population levels

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Goal 4: Connect Healthcare with Health Data

• Objective 4a:
Advance the development and use of health IT capabilities• Objective 4b:
Establish expectations for data sharing• Objective 4c:
Enhance technology and communications infrastructure• Objective 4d:
Promote secure health information practices that protect
individual privacy

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Measuring &Communicating
Progress

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Measuring Progress
Areas Measured for Federal and Industry-Wide Progress• Use secure, standards-based APIs to provide
electronic access to health information• Promote Fast Healthcare Interoperability
Resources (FHIR®) across federal
organizations and the populations they serve
for a variety of use cases• Implement and expand United States Core
Data for Interoperability (USCDI) dataclasses and elements for a variety of federal
use cases and the populations they serve• Deter information blocking
practices through federal
authorities and investments• Encourage data exchange
across networks at nationaland community levels

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An Outcomes Driven Plan

FOCUSED ON
MEETING THE
NEEDS OF

Individuals

PopulationsPayers

Public HealthProfessionalsDevelopers

Healthcare
Providers

Caregivers

Researchers

Innovators

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Communicating Progress
During implementation of this Plan, ONC will:
Report on health IT progressmeasures, actions taken to improve theaccess, exchange, and use of EHI, anddescribe barriers to connect healthcarewith health data
ONC will communicate federal andindustry-wide progress in its annual
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Question & Answer

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2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan

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