Open Health Tools Strategic Plan

Discussion of Person Centered Health Discussion of Health and Wellbeing Foundation Precepts

Context Health & well-being is the outcome Information is the enabler -Health and reference information is available to individuals, their providers, and population health entities in the most useable form whenever and wherever they need it [accessible, available] “IT solutions” are the means by which the information is used OHT contribution is to create and maintain a collaborative, inclusive, continuously evolving ecosystem to support and improve these solutions – with a specific orientation on meeting the needs of the solution users 3

Purpose Ensuring users have increasingly better and affordable access to and use of comprehensive health information whenever and wherever needed to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities worldwide 4

OHT contributions Technology Library of technology components [storage] -Tools -Platform -Exemplary applications Next generation collaborative tools Enable a distribution and deployment environment Business model Hybrid Open Source Public-private funding model Contribution model by early adopters Ecosystem for deployment Mature development process [means] Collaboration Create, nurture, and support ecosystem Open and transparent environment Enable a distribution and deployment environment Experienced Track Record 5

Goals Better capabilities faster Improved innovation to market (better) Improved speed to realize useful solutions (faster) Unleash creativity and resulting innovations Support Agility and Adaptability Support and enable organizations to effectively take on their changes in health care and business models Respond/adapt to/support/enable variations in workflow processes and needs and the evolution of health and care business models (reform) Lower/eliminate non-productive health IT costs Lower non-productive health IT costs by sharing selected resources and solutions Compete in areas that add value for the users and society as a whole Encourage reuse to reduce time to market Deliver Performance, Quality, Dependability, and Sustainability Create a high performing, well-engineered, superb quality platform Dependable, interoperable, standards-based, etc. 6

Principles Person-centered health and care Honors individual privacy preferences Trusted, secure, reliable information and systems Open, transparent, [egalitarian, equalitarian] processes 7

8 User populations Individual Care Providers {physicians, nurses, other care providers} Population Health {Public health worker, researcher} - Individuals (either as patient or as a well person) - Delegated individuals - Delegated organizations - Caretakers - Direct care Providers (public and private) - Provider organization - Health Professional - Pharmacies - Laboratories …….. ………- - Payers, Employers, ? Insurance organizations? ……. - Academic/training institutions - Public Health - Biomedical research - Quality improvement - Emergency Preparedness

WHAT IS OPEN HEALTH TOOLS? A Collaborative Community----- Community of Individuals who want access to their health and wellbeing information when and where they want it in a secure and private way A community of National, Regional & Local Health Services Providers who recognize that a common interoperable platform and exemplary tools for medical records is essential to meet the needs of patients, physicians, providers, payers as well as policy makers. A community of health professionals who collaborate in providing the requirements for technology and interoperable information systems to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of human health. A community of Open Standards Organizations who collaborate in providing specifications for health interoperability. A community of Open Source Developers focused on developing a Health Information Platform of frameworks, exemplary tools and reference applications A community of vendors who utilize the Open Health Technology to create wealth, increase profit and market share, while providing expertise and assets to the community. A community of academic and researchers who bring their experiences, research, ideas and wisdom to provide innovation and evaluation of health information interoperability.