The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) not only coordinates a variety of programs to implement HITECH but also supports the efforts of several related initiatives to facilitate nationwide adoption of health IT. Through working with these initiatives, ONC is able to reach diverse stakeholder groups that are imperative to the success of the HITECH Act. These initiatives, which are listed below, serve the needs of a diverse array of stakeholders to foster health IT adoption:

• Cybersecurity: ONC and HHS provide best practices for safeguarding protected health information in electronic health records.
   
• Innovations: Initiatives and activities within ONC and HHS designed to spur and support health technology innovation. 
   
• Nationwide Health Information Network: A collection of standards, protocols, legal agreements, specifications, and services to enable secure HIE.
   
• Federal Health Architecture: An e-government line of business initiative to increase efficiency and effectiveness in all government operations.
   
• Rural Health IT: HHS and the U.S. Department of Agriculture sign an agreement to leverage existing programs to help expand health IT infrastructure in rural America.
   
• State-Level Health Initiatives: Initiatives designed to ensure that states and regional efforts to achieve health information exchange (HIE) are aligned with the national agenda.
   
• Adoption: An initiative supporting two national health IT adoption surveys: one of physician offices and one of hospitals.
   
• Clinical Decision Support: An initiative to provide clinicians, staff, patients or other individuals with knowledge and person-specific information, intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times, to enhance health and health care.