Health IT is increasingly in demand for its role in improving patient care, reducing industry costs, and overall efficiencies in health care.  The Department of Health and Human services is heeding this demand by doubling the size of its office for coordinating health information technology.

According to Federal Computer Week, a leading publication on the government IT market:

HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) will double to 100 positions, and has several new posts in its organizational chart and three overriding goals, National Coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal said at a meeting of the Health IT Policy advisory committee.

The office’s goals are promoting widespread adoption of electronic health records by 2014, creating an infrastructure for a nationwide interoperable system capable of exchanging health data, and setting a foundation for a national “learning” health care system in which data on health outcomes and quality is continually collected and fed back into the system, Blumenthal said.

NextGenWeb applauds this increased effort in modernizing medicine through broadband-enabled technology.

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