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Health in the 21st Century: Working in the Public Interest
Achieving universal access to affordable, high-quality care will require streamlined processes and innovative information technology. But the health sector is at the beginning of a long and complex process of transformation that will require interconnecting a fragmented collection of providers, payers, suppliers, planners, researchers, government agencies (federal, tribal, state, local, and territorial), and business entities to forge an integrated system that delivers more value and higher quality to our citizens. This large-scale integration—transforming the health sector into a health system—is a cross-boundary change management challenge of the highest magnitude.
Federal Agencies Look to MITRE
Transforming our health sector has become a critical issue for the nation. Government agencies engaged in health have an unprecedented need for systems engineering and integration expertise, program management, organizational and change management, and cybersecurity and privacy solutions. Our sponsors and customers look to MITRE for thoughtful, unbiased guidance.
To achieve the greatest benefit for the public, MITRE's Center for Transforming Health focuses on three tasks where we make the biggest difference:
- Increase the effective use of patient-focused health information technology.
- Promote the secure and private exchange of health information to benefit,
protect, maintain, and improve public health.
- Improve government effectiveness in carrying out complex health-related
programs with transparency and accountability.
None of these tasks is simple or short term. MITRE works with a wide range of professional and technical organizations, standards bodies, advisory committees, academic institutions, and other enterprises to better understand health trends and to foster innovation in the public interest. In our role as an impartial, trusted adviser to our customers, we stand ready to confront some of the nation's toughest challenges related to health and health information technology.
A Focus on Health Research
MITRE's Center for Transforming Health research focuses on applying information technology to improve cooperation, coordination, and communications among organizations and people who finance, deliver, and consume health-related services. Our long-term research strategy seeks ways to use technology to advance four goals:
- Connect health by transforming the collection and processing of health-related information from paper-based silos to a national network of interoperable, secure, and private electronic health records;
- Empower patients and consumers to manage their health and healthcare by extending IT into personal health management and strengthening patient-clinician communications;
- Accelerate research to move promising, safe, and effective new therapies and devices from "bench to bedside" more rapidly; and
- Streamline healthcare delivery, policy making, workflows, and administrative processes to achieve better outcomes and higher value.
During 2009, MITRE's Health Transformation research program demonstrated promising new techniques for achieving interoperability and advancing the use of health information to improve care. MITRE's 2010 research projects will continue to investigate and develop new techniques and tools to achieve more affordable, accessible, high-quality healthcare and improved public health.
MITRE Health Customers at a Glance
MITRE supports the full spectrum of federal roles in healthcare, including health research, regulatory affairs, healthcare delivery, emergency preparedness and response, and healthcare finance. We offer a unique, government-wide perspective broadened further by consultation with industry and academia.
Department of Health and Human Services
- Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Food and Drug Administration
- National Institutes of Health
- Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
- Office of Public Health and Science
Department of Veterans Affairs
- Assistant Secretary for Management
- Office of Acquisition and Logistics
- Veterans Benefits Administration
Department of Defense
- Military Health System
- DoD Medical Education and Training Campus
For more information on how MITRE can help your government organization, please Contact Us.
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