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Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020

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Federal Health IT Strategic plan 2015-2020

In the recent years, the electronic health information system has become an

essential tool for collecting, storing, and sharing health-related information between

healthcare practitioners and patients. The Federal Health IT strategic plan aims at

promoting the use of Information Technology in healthcare through making health

information accessible when and where needed to advance and protect people’s health

and wellbeing (DeSalvo, 2015). The five-year strategic plan aims at improving health,

healthcare, and reducing healthcare costs using IT within the plan’s scheduled period

that runs from 2015 to 2020. Accordingly, the vision and mission of this strategic plan

will be achieved through the five goals stipulated in the subsequent paragraphs.

The first goal is to expand adoption of Health IT and has three objectives. The

first objective that will facilitate achievement of this goal involves increasing the

adoption and effective use of health IT systems and services while the second

involves increasing user and market confidence in the use of health IT systems and

products (DeSalvo, 2015). The last objective includes advancing a national

communications infrastructure that can sustain health, care delivery, and safety.

The second goal involves advancing secure and interoperable health information

(DeSalvo, 2015). In order to achieve this, there are three objectives to be met and they

include facilitating secure sending, receiving, finding, and use of electronic health

information by individuals, public health entities and public health providers;

identifying, prioritizing and improving the technical standards that help support

secured health information and lastly guarding the privacy and security of health

related information.

The third goal of the plan is strengthen health care delivery and will be achieved

through three objectives, namely, aiding the delivery of high-value health care,
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enhancing better health care quality access, experiences through equitable, efficient,

person-centered, and improving clinical and community services and population

health.

The fourth goal of the strategic plan is to advance the health and well-being of

individuals and communities and it has two main objectives (DeSalvo, 2015). The

first objective involves empowering the caregiver, family and individual engagement

and health management and the second objective is to promote and protect the

community, public health.

Finally, the fifth goal is to promote research, innovation, and scientific

knowledge and it has three objectives. The first objective involves enabling the access

and use of electronic health and information services while the second involves

hastening the development and commercialization of innovative services and

technologies. The last objective involve investing, disseminating, and translating

research on methods through which IT can be used to improve health care delivery.

Through the stipulated goals and careful adherence to the strategic plan, the

healthcare sector is likely to witness more improvements in the care, safety, and

health of individuals, families, and the society.

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References

DeSalvo, K. (2015). Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015- 2020. Retrieved

February 13, 2017, from https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/9-5-

federalhealthitstratplanfinal_0.pdf