April 3, 2020
Donald Rucker, MD
National Coordinator
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201
RE: 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
Dear National Coordinator Rucker:
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) is pleased to submit the following response to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) proposed 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (Strategic Plan). With this Strategic Plan, ONC seeks to move the health care ecosystem in the direction of interoperability and to meet the vision outlined in the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) to improve access to, and quality of, information that physician practices and others require in order to make informed healthcare decisions. We commend ONC for recognizing the need to improve interoperability to increase access to healthcare information and for seeking stakeholder feedback on how this best can be accomplished.