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Federal Health IT Programs

A variety of coordinated federal programs are currently underway to implement strategies to address the goals and objectives comprising the nation's health IT agenda, as defined within the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. The following tables present the objectives, list the agencies and programs that support them, and indicate to which goals the programs apply.

Click on any of the four objectives below to jump to the appropriate table.

Privacy and Security
Interoperabilty
Adoption
Collaborative Governance

Objective 1 - Privacy and Security

Agency	Programs
AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)	Health IT Portfolio - Goal 1 and 2
CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)	HIPAA Security Rule - Goal 1 and 2
NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)	Security Technology - Goal 1 and 2
ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology)	Anti-fraud Activities - Goal 1 CCHIT - Goal 1 Health Information Security and Privacy Collaborative (HISPC) - Goal 1 and 2 Health IT Standards Panel (HITSP) - Goal 1 and 2 Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) - Goal 1 and 2 State Alliance for e-Health - Goal 1 and 2
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)	Health IT Initiatives - Goal 1 and 2
Federal Advisory Committee	Programs
NCVHS (National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics)	Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality - Goal 1 and 2
AHIC (American Health Information Community)	Confidentiality, Privacy, and Security Workgroup - Goal 1 and 2
OCR (Office for Civil Rights)	HIPAA Privacy Rule and Health IT - Goal 1 and 2

Objective 2 - Interoperability

Agency	Programs
AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)	Health IT Portfolio - Goals 1 and 2 U.S. Health Information Knowledgebase - Goals 1 and 2
ASPR (Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response)	Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21 - Goal 2 Pandemic All-Hazards Preparedness Act - Goal 2
CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)	BioSense - Goal 2 EPI-X - Goal 2 National Healthcare Safety Network - Goal 2 Public Health Information Network - Goal 2 Public Health Preparedness Systems - Goal 2
CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)	ICD-10 - Goal 1 Medicaid Information Technology Architecture - Goals 1 and 2 Medicaid Transformation Grants - Goals 1 and 2 Beneficiary Information Services - Goal 1
FDA (Food and Drug Administration)	Structured Product Labeling - Goal 1 Sentinel Network - Goal 2
HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration)	Health IT Electronic Health Record and Innovations Grants - Goal 1 Telehealth Grants - Goal 1 Regional Genetic and Newborn Screening Service Collaboratives - Goal 1 Connections Project - Goal 2
IHS (Indian Health Service)	Resource and Patient Management System - Goals 1 and 2 National Data Repository - Goal 2
NIH (National Institutes of Health)	Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid - Goal 1 Support, Maintenance, & Dissemination of Standard Clinical Vocabularies - Goals 1 and 2 Health Informatics R&D - Goal 2 National Network of Libraries of Medicine - Goal 2
ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology)	Planning for AHIC 2.0 - Goals 1 and 2 Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology - Goals 1 and 2 Federal Interdepartmental Health IT Collaborative - Goals 1 and 2 Federal Health Architecture - Goals 1 and 2 Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel - Goals 1 and 2 Nationwide Health Information Network - Goals 1 and 2 Use Case Development - Goals 1 and 2
HHS/OS (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary)	Personalized Healthcare - Goals 1 and 2 Value-driven Health Care - Goals 1 and 2
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)	Health IT Initiatives - Goals 1 and 2
NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)	Conformance Testing Infrastructure - Goal 2 Security Technology - Goal 2
DoD (Department of Defense)	AHLTA - Goals 1 and 2 Memorandum of Agreement with State of Florida - Goals 1 and 2
SSA (Social Security Administration)	Medical Evidence Request and Data Use Prototype - Goal 1 NHIN Release of Information to a Trusted Entity - Goal 1 Use Case Funding and Participation - Goal 1 Personal Health Record Prototype - Goal 1
VA (Department of Veterans Affairs)	Personal Health Record - Goal 1
FCC (Federal Communications Commission)	Rural Health Care Pilot Program - Goals 1 and 2
Inter-Departmental and Inter-Agency	Programs
AHRQ, FDA, NLM (National Library of Medicine), NCI (National Cancer Institute), and VA	Data Standards Program - Goals 1 and 2
DoD and VA	Exchange of Information - Goals 1 and 2 Joint EHR - Goals 1 and 2
Federal Advisory Committee	Programs
NCVHS (National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics)	Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality - Goals 1 and 2
AHIC (American Health Information Community)	Consumer Empowerment Workgroup - Goals 1 and 2 Electronic Health Records Workgroup - Goals 1 and 2 Personalized Health Care Workgroup - Goals 1 and 2 Population Health and Clinical Care Connections - Goal 2

Objective 3 - Adoption

Agency	Programs
AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)	Health IT Portfolio - Goals 1 and 2
ASPE (Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation)	Health IT Activities - Goal 1
ASPR (Association of Staff Physician Recruiters)	Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21 - Goal 2 Pandemic All-Hazards Preparedness Act - Goal 2
CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)	BioSense - Goal 2 Public Health Information Network - Goal 2
CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)	EHR Adoption Demonstration - Goal 1 E-Prescribing Efforts - Goal 1 ICD-10 - Goal 1 and 2 Medicaid Information Technology Architecture - Goals 1 and 2 Medicaid Transformation Grants - Goal 1 Beneficiary Information Services - Goal 1 Reimbursement for Telehealth - Goal 1
FDA (Food and Drug Administration)	Structured Product Labeling - Goal 1 and 2 Sentinel Network - Goal 2
HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration)	Rural Hospital Flexibility Grant Program - Goal 1 Health IT Electronic Health Record and Innovations Grants - Goal 1
IHS (Indian Health Service)	Resource and Patient Management System - Goal 1 TeleHealth - Goal 1 National Data Repository - Goal 2
NIH (National Institutes of Health)	Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid - Goal 1 Support, Maintenance, & Dissemination of Standard Clinical Vocabularies - Goals 1 and 2 Health Informatics R&D - Goals 1 and 2
ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology)	Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology - Goal 1 Secure Messaging Pilot - Goal 1 Standardized Measures for Adoption of EHRs - Goal 1 Use Case Development - Goals 1 and 2
HHS/OS (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary)	Personalized Healthcare - Goals 1 and 2 Value-driven Health Care - Goals 1 and 2
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)	Health IT Initiatives - Goals 1 and 2
DoD (Department of Defense)	AHLTA - Goal 1 and 2
VA (Department of Veterans Affairs)	Electronic Health Record - Goal 1 Personal Health Record - Goal 1
Federal Advisory Committee	Programs
AHIC (American Health Information Community)	Consumer Empowerment Workgroup - Goal 1 Electronic Health Records Workgroup - Goal 1 Personalized Health Care Workgroup - Goal 1 Chronic Care Workgroup - Goal 1
OCR (Office for Civil Rights)	Health IT and Health Disparities/ Special Needs Populations - Goal 1

Objective 4 - Collaborative Governance

Agency	Programs
AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)	Health IT Portfolio - Goal 1
ASPR (Association of Staff Physician Recruiters)	Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21 - Goal 2 Pandemic All-Hazards Preparedness Act - Goal 2
NIH (National Institutes of Health)	Security Technology - Goals 1 and 2
ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology)	Anti-fraud Activities - Goal 1 CCHIT - Goal 1 Health Information Security and Privacy Collaborative (HISPC) - Goals 1 and 2 Health IT Standards Panel (HITSP) - Goals 1 and 2 Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) - Goals 1 and 2 State Alliance for e-Health - Goals 1 and 2
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)	Health IT Initiatives - Goals 1 and 2
Federal Advisory Committee	Programs
NCVHS (National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics)	Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality - Goals 1 and 2
AHIC (American Health Information Community)	Population Health and Clinical Care Connections - Goals 1 and 2 Quality Workgroup - Goals 1 and 2
OCR (Office for Civil Rights)	Health IT and Health Disparities/ Special Needs Populations - Goal 1
Other Public-Private Sector Initiatives	National Quality Forum - Goal 1

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