ONC Effort Aims To Boost Patient Engagement Through Health IT

Jodi Daniel, director of ONC's Office of Policy and Planning, wrote that ONC will "develop a policy framework for putting the person more at the center of their own health and health care, enabled by health IT."

According to ONC, the initiative has three goals:

• Increasing self-management and prevention;
• Seamless interaction with the health care system; and
• Shared management of health care (Murphy, EHR Intelligence, 1/13).

ONC said the goals will be met through initiatives already underway, including:

• Blue Button;
• The Consumer eHealth Program;
• The meaningful use incentive program;
• Federal advisory committee workgroups;
• The Investing in Innovation Program;
• Patient-centered outcomes research;
• Patient-generated health data; and
• Personalized health care

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Source: iHealthBeat