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
Patti Barnett Centene Corporation ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Paul M.A. Baker, Ph.D. Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP), Georgia Institute of Technology ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Lindsay Jager Cerner Corporation ✔ ✔ Submission File
Mari Savickis CHIME ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
David Schwartz Cigna ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Vatsala Kapur Pathy Collective Medical Technologies ✔ Submission File
andrew m keller Columbia Unversity ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Brian Scarpelli and Alexandra McLeod Connected Health Initiative ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Mike Denison Cooperative Exchange ✔ Submission File
Kimberly Boyd CoverMyMeds ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Camala Price Defense Health Agency & Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Gary Levin DIGITAL HEALTH SPACE ✔ Submission File
Jennifer Goldsack Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Karen Schoelles ECRI Institute ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Elinore Boeke Electronic Health Record Association ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Grace Cordovano Enlightening Results ✔ Submission File
Cole Leystra Epic ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Tim Wang Fenway Health ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Lisa J McKeen GDIT- eMedNY ✔ Submission File
Dan Soule Health Catalyst ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Joel White Health Innovation Alliance ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Devon Adams Healthcare Leadership Council ✔ Submission File
Jeff Coughlin HIMSS and PCHAlliance ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Aaron Todd Iowa Primary Care Association ✔ ✔ Submission File
Patti L Spencer La Clinica de Familia ✔ Submission File