About: Our Shared Vision

We envision a high-performing healthcare system, where all those engaged in the care of the patient are linked together in secure and interoperable environments, and where the decentralized flow of clinical health information directly enables the most comprehensive, patient-centered, safe, efficient, effective, timely and equitable delivery of care where and when it is needed most – at the point of care.

In our vision, financial and other incentives are aligned to directly support and accelerate all of the key elements of transformation — engaging consumers, transforming care delivery at the point of care, and improving population health — in a secure, private, and trusted environment.

Vision for Engaging Consumers:
Patients will be fully engaged in their own healthcare, supported by information and tools that enable informed consumer action and decision making, working hand-in-hand with healthcare providers. Tools that support consumer engagement are well designed and customized to the diversity of consumers. These tools are integrated into the delivery of care, and are conveniently available outside healthcare settings as well.

Vision for Transforming Care Delivery at the Point of Care:
Patient care is high quality, patient-centered, for a lifetime, and reflects a coordinated and collaborative approach. Complete, timely and relevant patient-focused information and clinical decision support tools are available, as part of the provider’s workflow, at the point of care. High quality and efficient patient care is supported by the deployment and use of interoperable health IT and secure data exchange between and across all relevant stakeholders.

Vision for Improving Population Health:
Electronic healthcare data and secure health information exchange are utilized to facilitate the flow of reliable health information among population health and clinical care systems to improve the health status of populations as a whole. Information is utilized to enhance healthcare experiences for individuals, eliminate health disparities, measure and improve healthcare quality and value, expand knowledge about effective improvements in care delivery and access, support public health surveillance, and assist researchers in developing evidence-based advances in areas such as diagnostic testing, illness and injury treatment, and disease prevention.

Vision for Aligning Financial and Other Incentives:
Healthcare providers are rewarded appropriately for managing the health of patients in a holistic manner. Meaningful incentives help accelerate improvements in quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness. Quality of care delivery and outcomes are the engines that power the payment of providers.

Vision for Privacy, Security and Confidentiality:
In a fully-enabled electronic information environment designed to engage consumers, transform care delivery and improve population health, consumers have confidence that their personal health information is private, secure and used with their consent in appropriate, beneficial ways. Technological developments are adopted in harmony with policies and business rules that foster trust and transparency. Organizations that store, transmit or use personal health information have internal policies and procedures in place that protect the integrity, security and confidentiality of personal health information. Policies and procedures are monitored for compliance, and consumers are informed of existing remedies available to them if they are adversely affected by a breach of security. Consumers trust and rely upon the secure sharing of healthcare information as a critical component of high quality, safe and efficient healthcare.