The decade of health information technology: delivering consumer-centric and information-rich health care.(Reference Desk)

This report is the first outline of a 10-year plan to build a national electronic health information infrastructure in the United States. The US Department of Health & Human Services lays out the broad steps needed to achieve always-current, always-available electronic health records (EHR) for Americans and identifies goals and action areas ... for joint private/public cooperation and leadership.

The report identifies four major collaborative goals. With these goals are 12 strategies for advancing and focusing future efforts:

Goal 1: Inform clinical practice. This goal centers largely around efforts to bring EHRs directly into clinical practice.

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