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eHI Blueprint Offers Multi-Stakeholder Consensus on a Shared Vision, Principles, Strategies and Actions for Improving Health and Healthcare

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the non-profit eHealth Initiative (eHI) released the eHealth Initiative Blueprint: Building Consensus for Common Action, which represents multi-stakeholder consensus on a shared vision and a set of principles, strategies and actions for improving health and healthcare through information and information technology (IT). Through a collaborative process led by eHI's multi-stakeholder leadership, development of the Blueprint involved nearly 200 organizations representing the many diverse stakeholders in healthcare, including clinicians, consumers, employers and healthcare purchasers, healthcare IT suppliers, health plans, hospitals and other providers, laboratories, the life sciences industry, pharmacies, public health agencies, and state and regional leaders. The eHI Blueprint is publicly available and can be accessed at http://www.ehealthinitiative.org/blueprint.

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Over the last several years, interest in and recognition of the importance of health IT and health information exchange to improve our nation's health and healthcare have grown significantly, stimulating leadership as well as a number of activities and policy changes -- both at the federal and state levels. To respond to this increasing momentum, national and local leaders alike are calling for guidance, coordination and common agreement on the near- term actions that should be taken in support of a long-term path towards an improved healthcare system enabled by interoperable health IT.

As a result, eHI's leader
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