{"id":235,"date":"2010-04-05T12:02:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthit.hhs.gov\/blog\/onc\/?p=235"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:12:50","slug":"strategic-approach-health-it-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/insights-updates\/strategic-approach-health-it-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strategic Approach to Health IT Implementation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In June of 2008, ONC published the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan \u2014 a roadmap for the implementation of nationwide health IT. We need to update the plan to take into account progress made toward the HITECH vision and new opportunities and challenges that may have arisen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The experiences of providers and health IT professionals working \u201con the ground\u201d play an enormous role in crafting these adjustments to the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and setting the course of our future efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, ONC posted a draft of the HIT Policy Committee Strategic Plan Workgroup\u2019s Health IT Strategic Framework, a foundation for updates to the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. The draft Framework focuses on the goal, guiding principles, objectives, and strategies of four key areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Meaningful use of health IT<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Policy and technical infrastructure<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Privacy and security<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learning health system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The long and short of it is that ONC needs you \u2014 your experiences and insights can tell us much about what is working well in the implementation of the HITECH Act and where we have opportunities for improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope that you will take an opportunity to review the draft Health IT Strategic Framework and share your thoughts on the <a href=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/?category=health-information-technology-advisory-committee\">FACA blog<\/a> or via the public listening session, scheduled for April 6, 2010. Registration is required for the listening session, and complete details are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/hitac\">https:\/\/healthit.gov\/hitac<\/a>. The HIT Policy Committee will consider public input before making formal recommendations to ONC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together we can ensure that the HITECH Act\u2019s goals, objectives, and strategies are on-target and leading us in the right direction \u2014 toward the meaningful use of EHRs and improved health and care for Americans health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P. \u2013 National Coordinator for Health Information Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June of 2008, ONC published the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan \u2014 a roadmap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_selected_menu":"","_show_breadcrumbs":"true","_blog_show_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"archived-category":[765],"featured":[],"topics":[444,432,425,445],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights-updates","archived-category-from-the-onc-desk","topics-guidance-best-practices","topics-hit-strategic-planning","topics-hit-policy","topics-implementation-resources"],"acf":{"blog_authors":[{"blog_author_profiles":"198443"}],"hp_news_hide":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.8.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Strategic Approach to Health IT Implementation - ONC Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Health IT implementation through the Health IT Strategic Framework consists of four key areas. 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