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This 5-page paper discusses the ONC-Coordinated Federal Health Information Strategic Plan in general, and how it applies to Grant Medical Center specifically. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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multi-week basis - has undergone the frustration of paperwork and lots of it. Even patients whose physicians have referred them to hospitals, and who have undergone pre-operative procedures, find themselves,
on the days of their surgeries and/or long-term stays, having to reiterate information theyve already written down or reported to others. The
situation becomes even more challenging if the patient is moving from somewhere else - even a cross-town move, or a move from one health network to another can mean a
new round of paperwork for both patient and healthcare provider. The frustrating aspect here is that, while medical technology and discoveries are treating diseases that even a generation ago would
have been fatal, the medical industrys information technology systems havent come near that same level. This is why, on April 27, 2004,
President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13335 to build a launching pad for an "interoperable health information technology infrastructure" with the goal of improving health care quality and efficiently
(Department of Health and Human Services, 2008). The EO created the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, who is responsible for "developing, maintaining and directing" a strategic plan that would
ultimately help develop a health information technology network that would tie together public and private health care sectors (Department of Health and Human Services, 2008).
This, in turn, prompted the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to develop its Federal Health IT Strategic Plan; a four-year initiative geared to
"achieve the nationwide implementation of this technology infrastructure throughout both the public and private sectors" (Department of Health and Human Services, 2008). The main goals are 1) patient-focused health care
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