Summary of Public Comment for Draft 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan

ONC received 96 comments on the draft 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan during the public comment period. The draft strategy focuses on 4 goals:

  1. Promote Health and Wellness;
  2. Enhance the Delivery and Experience of Care;
  3. Build a Secure, Data-Driven Ecosystem to Accelerate Research and Innovation; and
  4. Connect Healthcare and Health Data through an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure.

As intended by the comment process, comments were submitted by a wide range of stakeholders to include, but not limited to: health professional societies, providers of health services, public health entities, health information technology developers, hospitals, health care payers, health care quality organizations, state entities, health care suppliers of services, health care accreditation organizations, and patient advocates.

For those wishing to review comments submitted relating to this strategy, please reference the below chart. This chart may be sorted using the dropdown menu below.

Name Organization General Goal 1: Promote Health and Wellness Goal 2: Enhance the Delivery and Experience of Care Goal 3: Build a Secure, Data-Driven Ecosystem to Accelerate Research and Innovation Goal 4: Connect Healthcare and Health Data through an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure Submission
Zack Hornberger MITA ✔ Submission File
Vatsala Kapur Pathy Collective Medical Technologies ✔ Submission File
Valerie Grey New York eHealth Collaborative ✔ Submission File
Tricia Lee Rolle Point-of-Care Partners ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Tom Wilder UnitedHealth Group ✔ ✔ Submission File
Tim Wang Fenway Health ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Susan Clark Briljent ✔ Submission File
Steve Postal American Physical Therapy Association ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Stephanie Fraser NextGate ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Shelly Spiro Pharmacy HIT Collaborative ✔ Submission File
Shannon Vogel Texas Medical Association ✔ ✔ Submission File
Sean Kennedy Salesforce ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Scott Weinberg American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Sarabeth Zemel Providence St. Joseph Health ✔ ✔ Submission File
Sandra Mitchell, RPh, MSIS, FASHP VHIE, contractor JP Systems ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Robert Tennant Medical Group Management Association ✔ ✔ Submission File
Richard L. Summers, MD, FACEP University of Mississippi Medical Center ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Randy Martin Stanislaus County Health Services Agency Submission File
Randi Gold American Association of Nurse Anesthetists ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Ragnhildur I. Bjarnadottir Alliance for Nursing Informatics ✔ Submission File
Rachel Groman Alliance of Specialty Medicine ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Paul Wilson NCPDP National Council for Prescription Drug Programs ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Paul M.A. Baker, Ph.D. Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP), Georgia Institute of Technology ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Paul Epner Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine ✔ Submission File
Paul Cotton National Committee for Quality Assurance ✔ Submission File