In my first two blog posts in this series, Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and Third Party Risk and Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and Managed Services, I examined how the ONC’s 2024–2030 Federal IT Strategic Plan will impact healthcare public policy and create the foundation for how we live our healthiest lives.
The four goals of the 2024–2030 plan are:
- Promote Health and Wellness
- Enhance the Delivery and Experience of Care
- Accelerate Research and Innovation
- Connect the Health System with Health Data
In the third blog of this four-part series, I’ll review how the federal government plans on advancing opportunities for individuals, researchers, technologists, and other digital health users to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation.
Goal Three: Accelerate Research and Innovation
Objectives:
- Ensure that researchers and other health IT users have appropriate access to health data to drive individual and population health improvement
- Individual and population-level research and analysis are enhanced by IT
- Researchers advance health equity by using health data that includes underrepresented groups
Amy Webb, author, futurist, and darling of SXSW (attendees queue up in lines overnight to hear her speak) likens the fear around artificial intelligence to the fear you have when you learn how to drive on the ice. When your car begins to slide, your instinct is to slam on the brakes, but the safest thing to do is steer into the skid.
The ONC’s strategy reflects both the opportunity to broaden the use of new technologies while increasing transparency when and where AI is used. There’s a strong predilection for the power of pattern recognition within disparate and unstructured data and equally strong wording that addresses algorithmic discrimination and bias in health IT. Curative properties that propel diagnosis will be found in data that doesn’t yet exist. Each of these objectives have separate strategies that empower patients to consent to how and when their data is used, and that de-identified health information is protected from re-identification. Innovation can’t come at the expense of individual privacy.
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Jennifer Johnson
Jennifer Johnson, Director Healthcare Strategy and Business Development, joined Connection in 2010 starting in field sales and joined the healthcare practice in 2015. Jennifer has more than 20 years in IT, including prior roles in distribution and manufacturing. Jennifer holds her Certified Digital Health Leader designation from the CHIME organization and is a member of HIMSS, where Connection is a diamond sponsor. Jen was named CRN Women of the Channel in 2023 and 2024 and holds certifications from NVIDIA (AI Advisor- Sales) and Dell Technologies (AI Champion- Partner Sales).
