ONC Opens Comments Period on Plan to Reduce Health IT Disparities

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is now seeking input on its plan to reduce health IT disparities. If the public comments period of the superset Federal Strategic Health IT Plan serves as a precursor, this could be a vibrant and voluminous discussion, albeit more granular.

The subset Federal Health IT Strategic Plan to Reduce Health IT Disparities working group has for several months now been focused on creating a means “to further define the federal government’s strategies and tactics to reduce health IT disparities within underserved communities.” ONC explained on its HealthIT Buzz blog that the group will produce a plan to that end, and align it with the five goals of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan...