The non-profit eHealth Initiative (eHI) has released its eHealth Initiative Blueprint: Building Consensus for Common Action, representing multi-stakeholder consensus on principles, strategies, and actions for improving health care through IT. Development of the blueprint involved nearly 200 organizations representing clinicians, consumers, employers and healthcare purchasers, hospitals and other providers, and many other healthcare stakeholders.
The release of the eHI blueprint represents phase 1 of a two-phase process. Over the next 12 months, as part of phase 2, eHI will disseminate the blueprint, support its implementation, facilitate the sharing of related best practices, and gain further input from additional stakeholders. The group will also encourage national dialogue to reach agreement on those areas for which there is not yet consensus, and will track and publicly report annually on progress made on the blueprint. Download the document.
