About: What is the eHealth Initiative Blueprint?
The eHealth Initiative Blueprint: Building Consensus for Common Action is a shared vision, and a set of common principles, strategies and actions for improving health and healthcare through health IT and health information exchange, developed by a broad, collaborative, and transparent process led by and involving the many diverse stakeholders in healthcare.
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“eHI and its leaders...recognize that health IT is not an end unto itself, but a means to an end—which is higher quality, safer, more value-driven, and accessible healthcare for all Americans.” |
The eHI Blueprint is designed to offer easy to understand, practical guidance to a wide range of audiences. Organizations operating in every sector of healthcare and at every level of the system can benefit from employing the principles, strategies and actions contained in the report. The eHI Blueprint also offers a listing of resources, initiatives, and online case examples for areas addressed by the Blueprint.
eHI’s long-term focus since its inception in 2001 has been to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of the healthcare system through information and information technology. eHI and its leaders—who represent the many sectors in healthcare—recognize that health IT is not an end unto itself, but a means to an end—which is higher quality, safer, more value-driven, and accessible healthcare for all Americans. With this in mind, as eHI embarked on the development of the Blueprint, it chose not to develop a “how-to guide to effectively implement health IT” but instead a guide to “enhancing health and healthcare improvement strategies through the use of health IT and health information exchange.” Key focus areas of the Blueprint are as follows:
- Engaging consumers
- Transforming care delivery
- Improving population health
- Aligning financial and other incentives
- Managing privacy, security, and confidentiality
The eHI Blueprint is intended to support current leadership efforts, including those emerging from the Administration, Congress and the many private sector organizations that have been working on healthcare information technology and information exchange for many years
