Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
Secretary’s Health IT Leadership Panel
HHS convened, through the Lewin Group, a group of nine CEOs of leading U.S. companies with little or no direct involvement in health care or information technology (IT) industry sectors with the intention of learning how IT has been successfully adopted and used by other sectors. On May 11, 2005, Secretary Leavitt released a report summarizing three key imperatives and six conclusions:
The three key imperatives for health IT they concluded were:
- Widespread adoption of interoperable health IT
- Widespread adoption of interoperable health IT should be a top priority for the U.S. health care system.
- The federal government should use its leverage as the nation’s largest health care payer and provider to drive adoption of health IT.
- Private sector purchasers and health care organizations can and should collaborate alongside the federal government to drive adoption of health IT.
The six conclusions they reached on guiding health IT adoption by the federal government and private sector were:
- Potential benefits of health IT far outweigh manageable costs.
- Health IT needs a clear, broadly motivating vision and practical adoption strategy.
- The federal government should provide leadership, and industry will engage and follow.
- Lessons of adoption and success of IT in other industries should inform and enhance adoption of health IT.
- Stakeholder incentives must be aligned to foster health IT adoption.
- Among its multiple stakeholders, the consumer – including individual beneficiaries, patients, family members and the public-at-large – is key to adoption of health IT and realizing its benefits.
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