ONC @ 20: A Tale of Optimism and Humility

HealthIT.gov April 26, 2024
Steven Posnack

Hey class, it’s time to jump in the Wayback Machine. In this case, I literally had to use the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to rummage for this post’s content in honor of ONC’s 20^th anniversary.

In late 2005, when I was still at the start of my ONC career, the office formed its first federal advisory committee, the American Health Information Community (AHIC). Brimming with optimism and a vision for a health IT-enabled future, the AHIC considered three initial “breakthrough” areas focused on: consumer empowerment, health improvement, and public health protection.

A breakthrough was considered “the use of health information technology that produces a tangible and specific value to the health care consumer and that can be realized within a...

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