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
John Dzivak Pt Pal ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Michael Prevoznik Quest Diagnostics ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Michael Mabry RadNet ✔ Submission File
Dexter Golinghorst Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) ✔ Submission File
Sean Kennedy Salesforce ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Paul Epner Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine ✔ Submission File
Randy Martin Stanislaus County Health Services Agency Submission File
Brandy Altstadter STChealth ✔ Submission File
Kelly Hoover Thompson Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC) ✔ Submission File
Mike Stanich Tableau Software ✔ Submission File
Shannon Vogel Texas Medical Association ✔ ✔ Submission File
David Dieterich The Missouri Health Connection ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Ashley Ashworth The Pew Charitable Trusts ✔ Submission File
Mariann Yeager The Sequoia Project, Inc. ✔ ✔ Submission File
Tom Wilder UnitedHealth Group ✔ ✔ Submission File
Mark Savage University of California, San Francisco's Center for Digital Health Innovation ✔ Submission File
Richard L. Summers, MD, FACEP University of Mississippi Medical Center ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Sandra Mitchell, RPh, MSIS, FASHP VHIE, contractor JP Systems ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Michael Ellsworth Washington State Department of Health ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
MaryAnne Lindeblad, BSN, MPH Washington State Health Care Authority ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Bob Hussey Wolters Kluwer ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File