President's Executive Order Will Drive Quality Improvements in America's Healthcare
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August 23, 2006 |
August 23, 2006. Washington, D.C. Janet Marchibroda, chief executive officer of the eHealth Initiative and its Foundation, issued the following statement on President Bush's Executive Order on quality and health information technology.
"President Bush's Executive Order represents a significant and important step forward for improving the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare. It harnesses the power of the federal government as a healthcare purchaser to support and promote both healthcare quality improvement and gains in efficiency, through the use of interoperable health information technology.
The eHealth Initiative, with its multi-stakeholder membership of clinicians, consumer groups, employers, health plans, healthcare IT suppliers, hospitals, manufacturers, and public health agencies, and growing coalition of more than 280 state, regional and community-based collaboratives, is committed to continuing to develop and drive the adoption of principles, policies and best practices for improving the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare through information and information technology, to inform the work of the Administration and Congress, as well as the activities of the many stakeholders and leaders across the U.S., who are helping to make these necessary changes happen--on the ground".
About eHealth Initiative and its Foundation
The eHealth Initiative and its Foundation are independent, non-profit affiliated organizations whose missions are the same: to drive improvements in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and information technology.
eHI engages multiple stakeholders, including clinicians, consumer and patient groups, employers, health plans, healthcare IT suppliers, hospitals and other providers, laboratories, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, pharmacies, public health, and public sector agencies, as well as its growing coalition of more than 280 state, regional and community-based collaboratives focused on improving healthcare by mobilizing health information electronically, to develop and disseminate common principles, policies and best practices for improving the quality, safety and effectiveness of America's healthcare through information and information technology.
