{"id":7073,"date":"2024-10-12T13:09:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T13:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/?p=7073"},"modified":"2024-10-12T13:09:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T13:09:18","slug":"federal-health-it-strategic-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/federal-health-it-strategic-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"ASTP\/ONC Releases Final 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7073\" data-postid=\"7073\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7073 themify_builder\">\n \t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div class=\"themify_builder_row module_row clearfix module_row_0 themify_builder_7073_row module_row_7073-0 tb_fzky614\">\n\t \t <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"module_column tb-column col-full first tb_7073_column module_column_0 module_column_7073-0-0 tb_tu41614\">\n\t \t \t <div class=\"tb-column-inner\">\n\t\t <!-- module text -->\n<div class=\"module module-text tb_30u441 \">\n <div class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7074 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/FederalStrategicPlan2024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/FederalStrategicPlan2024.png 483w, https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/FederalStrategicPlan2024-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/>In September 2024 the HHS Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy\/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP\/ONC) released the final <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthit.gov\/topic\/2024-2030-federal-health-it-strategic-plan\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A preliminary plan had been released in March 2024 and we <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/onc-spandupdate\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">commented on this earlier draft<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at that time. Not much seems to have changed of substance from the initial draft to this final version. It does appear, however, that an increase in emphasis on data <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quality<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was added to the final plan (for instance, see this added as a \u201cpurpose\u201d on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthit.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/page\/2024-09\/ASTP%202024-2030%20Strategic%20Plan_508.pdf#page=6\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">slide 3<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). There is also an increased emphasis on health IT <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">modernization<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (see <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthit.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/page\/2024-09\/ASTP%202024-2030%20Strategic%20Plan_508.pdf#page=26\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">slide 23<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) within Goal 4. Public health data and systems continues to be addressed in Objective E of Goal 4 (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthit.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/page\/2024-09\/ASTP%202024-2030%20Strategic%20Plan_508.pdf#page=30\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">slide 27<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and there were no real changes there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We feel encouraged by the strategy articulated by ASTP\/ONC and hope for continuing progress over the next several years.<\/span><\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->\n\t <\/div>\n\t \t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n\t <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASTP\/ONC releases final 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan – see our brief comments from a public health standpoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,12,20,25,40,44],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-7073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmi","category-hie-interoperability","category-onc","category-planning","category-public-health","category-tefca","tag-blog","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"acf":[],"builder_content":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/FederalStrategicPlan2024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/FederalStrategicPlan2024.png 483w, https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/FederalStrategicPlan2024-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/>In September 2024 the HHS Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy\/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP\/ONC) released the final <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthit.gov\/topic\/2024-2030-federal-health-it-strategic-plan\">2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan<\/a>. A preliminary plan had been released in March 2024 and we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/onc-spandupdate\/\">commented on this earlier draft<\/a> at that time. Not much seems to have changed of substance from the initial draft to this final version. It does appear, however, that an increase in emphasis on data <i>quality<\/i> was added to the final plan (for instance, see this added as a \u201cpurpose\u201d on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthit.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/page\/2024-09\/ASTP%202024-2030%20Strategic%20Plan_508.pdf#page=6\">slide 3<\/a>). There is also an increased emphasis on health IT <i>modernization<\/i> (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthit.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/page\/2024-09\/ASTP%202024-2030%20Strategic%20Plan_508.pdf#page=26\">slide 23<\/a>) within Goal 4. Public health data and systems continues to be addressed in Objective E of Goal 4 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthit.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/page\/2024-09\/ASTP%202024-2030%20Strategic%20Plan_508.pdf#page=30\">slide 27<\/a>) and there were no real changes there.<\/p> <p>We feel encouraged by the strategy articulated by ASTP\/ONC and hope for continuing progress over the next several years.<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7075,"href":"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions\/7075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hln.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}