When: December 4-5, 2024
Where: Omni Shoreham, Washington, DC
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Annual Meeting Agenda
Hashtag: #ASTP2024
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Join them for two days of conversation, learning, and networking. You’ll hear about the key issues at the intersection of health care, public health, policymaking, and technology through a variety of keynote speakers and mainstage, breakout, and education sessions as we reflect on 20 years and look ahead to the future of better health enabled by health IT.
Session Spotlights
Empowering Patients: Enhancing Patient Access and Navigation in Cancer Care
December 4 at 3:45 PM
Ensuring patients and families have easy access to the information and tools they need to manage their health and care is critical to facilitating navigation of a recent cancer diagnosis, cancer survivorship, or end of life care. Hear from researchers, patient advocates, and members of CancerX to learn about the latest research on patient-reported experiences and preferences related to access and use of their electronic health information, as well as speakers’ own lived experiences navigating cancer care.
Advancing Health Equity by Design: Identifying and Addressing Disparities in Patient Access
December 5 at 2:15 PM
Health equity by design focuses on the need to include health equity at the outset during the design and implementation of health IT policies, programs, and workflows. This session will focus on efforts to advance health equity by identifying and addressing disparities in patient access to electronic health information. The presentations in this session will showcase findings from recent studies aimed at identifying disparities in patient portal access and use; discuss best practices for promoting equitable access, effective communication, and language-responsiveness in patient portals; and highlight promising results from a health system approach to mitigating patient access disparities by ensuring all patients are offered access to their patient portal. Together, these presentations demonstrate how a health equity by design approach to patient access can help monitor existing gaps and identify opportunities to leverage digital tools to eliminate health disparities and advance health equity.
About the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy
The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (hereafter ASTP) is at the forefront of the administration’s health IT efforts and is a resource to the entire health system to support the adoption of health information technology and the promotion of nationwide, standards-based health information exchange to improve health care. ASTP is organizationally located within the Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ASTP is the principal federal entity charged with coordination of nationwide efforts to implement and use the most advanced health information technology and the electronic exchange of health information. The position of National Coordinator was created in 2004, through an Executive Order, and legislatively mandated in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) of 2009.
Through its work, ASTP remains focused on two strategic objectives:
- Advancing the development and use of health IT capabilities; and
- Establishing expectations for data sharing
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— Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (@HHS_TechPolicy) October 1, 2024