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Healthcare Transformation
Overview MITRE's Healthcare Mission Area (HMA) works to improve the quality of healthcare in the United States by partnering with federal healthcare agencies as they implement business and technical solutions to improve performance and customer satisfaction while keeping pace with evolving information technology (IT) trends. The HMA, which operates within our Center for Enterprise Modernization, collaborates with public and private healthcare sector organizations on issues affecting the security, safety, responsiveness, cost, and quality of healthcare in the U.S. and international markets. One of our main areas of focus is healthcare informatics, which encompasses efforts to improve the efficiency of information processing in medicine, nursing, and other allied health professions. Healthcare informatics is the subject of a federal mandate to provide all Americans with electronic healthcare records by 2012. To this end, MITRE is working to integrate systems and clinical knowledge by helping the federal government create a seamless, secure healthcare informatics system. We are assisting private sector organizations and federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Veterans Administration, and the Department of Defense, in laying the groundwork for a nationwide electronic infrastructure for the secure exchange of medical data. MITRE scientists and analysts are focused on identifying areas where new health IT standards are needed, refining existing standards, and guiding the implementation of the standards within federal government systems. We are committed to both the improvement of healthcare technology solutions and the involvement of stakeholders, such as physicians, nurses, administrators, allied health professionals, and patients. Our modeling efforts can help predict the impact of proposed enterprise changes. And our acquisition expertise helps our sponsors to obtain the best value solutions to healthcare challenges. Current Work Programs Our healthcare IT work encompasses a broad range of programs aimed at improving clinical records and data sharing by defining and evaluating electronic health records, clinical vocabularies, semantics and ontologies. Specific healthcare IT work now underway includes:
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