title: Building on a national health information technology strategic plan for long-term and post-acute care: comments by the Long Term Post Acute Care Health Information Technology Collaborative.
abstract: The LTPAC (Long Term Post Acute Care) Health Information Technology (HIT) Collaborative consists of an alliance of long-term services and post-acute care stakeholders. Members of the collaborative are actively promoting HIT innovations in long-term care settings because IT adoption for health care institutions in the United States has become a high priority. One method used to actively promote HIT is providing expert comments on important documents addressing HIT adoption. Recently, the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT released a draft of the Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan 2011-2015 for public comment. The following brief is intended to inform about recommendations and comments made by the Collaborative on the strategic plan.
authors.affiliation: Alliance for Nursing Informatics, Chicago, Illinois, USA. alexanderg@missouri.edu
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mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D008134:Long-Term Care; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States