Letter to Donald Rucker on Draft 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan

UCSF’s Center for Digital Health Innovation provides two concrete recommendations to help ONC and federal agencies accomplish the four strategic goals and objectives in 2020-2025.  First, the 2020-2025 Strategic Plan should include an interoperability measurement framework to measure the quality, gaps, and impact of interoperability across key settings and users of health care.  We cannot improve what we do not measure.  Second, the Strategic Plan should include an explicit program and timeline for bi-directional exchange and “write” access to people’s electronic health records.  Stakeholders need to begin preparing now so bi-directional exchange and access can become a reality well before 2025.