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2014
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, a unit of the Department of Health and Human Services, has issued its Strategic Health IT Plan for 2015 to 2020.
The plan, developed in collaboration with more than 35 federal agencies, has five main goals:
- Furthering the adoption of health IT
- Improving the security and interoperability of health information exchanges
- Strengthening healthcare delivery
- Supporting and improving the health and wellness of individuals and communities
- Advancing research and innovation
- Enabling individuals, providers, and public health entities to securely send, receive, find and use electronic health information;
- Identifying, prioritizing and advancing technical standards to support secure and interoperable health information;
- Protecting the privacy and security of health information.