Updated September 30, 2010 Open Health Tools (OHT) Strategic Plan

Updated September 30, 2010

Open Health Tools (OHT)

Strategic Plan


OHT’s Mission

Our mission is to significantly contribute to the health and well-being of individuals and communities around the world by improving their ability to access, share, manage, and effectively use health-related information.

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OHT’s Vision

…to enable a ubiquitous ecosystem where members of the Health and IT professions can collaborate to build interoperable systems that enable patients and their care providers to have access to vital and reliable medical information at the time and place it is needed

[from the OHT Membership Agreement]

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OHT’s Primary Goal

To facilitate the creation of solutions that meet health and health care needs more easily, quickly, and affordably than is possible with existing health information technology (health IT) products and services

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Core Principles

• Focus on person-centered health and health care• Develop and use processes that are open, transparent, and

egalitarian• Serve the needs of diverse populations around the globe• Honor, support, and enable individual privacy preferences• Enable high quality, reliable, trusted, and secure health

information and information systems

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Health IT Domains

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Health IT Domains

• There are three health-information domains:

• Personal Health domain

• Health Care Delivery domain

• Population Health domain

• Activities in each complementary to one another and are designed to improve and maintain the health and well-being of individuals and communities.

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Health IT Domains

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Health IT Users

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Health IT Users

• There are different primary users for each health IT domain:

• Personal Health domain: Individuals and their Caretakers are the primary users

• Health Care Delivery domain: Health Care Providers are the primary users

• Population Health domain: Public Health Officials, Researchers, Quality Monitoring Organizations, and Emergency “First Responders” are among the primary users

• The primary users in each domain have different requirements.

• All users need to be able to communicate and exchange information across domains to achieve their common goal.

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OHT View – 100,000 Feet

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OHT At-A-Glance (v1)

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DESCRIBING THE DIAGRAMS AND ELEMENTS

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OHT’s Approach(Conceptual 50,000 Feet)

• OHT significantly contributes to the health and well-being of individuals and communities

by transforming the health IT industry to be able to quickly deliver high quality products and services

that are easier, safer, cheaper, and more responsive to user needs.

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OHT’s Approach(Conceptual 50,000 Feet)

• OHT significantly contributes to the health and well-being of individuals and communities by transforming the health IT industry to be able to quickly deliver high quality products and services that are easier, safer, cheaper, and more responsive to user needs.

• OHT accomplishes this by forging a trusted, self-sustaining Collaborative Community of Diverse Participants who self-organize around new and emerging Innovative Business Models.

• Community members use, support, and add value to a core set of shared, open source, “industrial strength” Software Platforms, Tools, and Exemplary Applications, which they have created and delivered as planned using Proven Processes.

• This software is reliable, scalable, and extensible and designed to maximize User Choice.

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OHT’s Approach (Conceptual 25,000 Feet)

• …forging a trusted, self-sustaining Collaborative Community of Diverse Participants who self-organize around new and emerging Innovative Business Models

• Enable Collaborative Communities to: form, communicate, cooperate, and contribute to a private public collective for mutual gain and service.

• Diverse Participants collaborate and self-organize to develop communities and software that is for the common good and is free.

• Innovative Business Models used are self-sustaining, persist over time and across geographic borders, and transcend partisan initiatives.

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Element #1: Diverse Participants (Conceptual 10,000 Feet)

We seek diversity in the participants throughout the ecosystem.Diversity manifests itself in:

• economic, (resource rich to resource constrained), • geographic, (large to small areas, urban to rural, centralized to decentralized)• cultural, (preserve and protect the cultural diversity) • technology adoption (Early adopters to laggard) • vocational (highly skilled and literate to no skills and illiterate

Membership: The initial community of diverse member organizations includes:

• national, regional, and local health provider organizations; • health professional organizations • public health organizations • academicians, informaticians, researchers• open standards organizations• product and service vendors• consultants• consumers/patients and consumers/patients advocate organizations (pending)• OHT will add organizations and individuals from both current and

new health interest groups

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OHT’s role: Balance the diversity and turn competitors into collaborators


DISCUSSION

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BACK-UP SLIDES

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Our Approach:Build a Health IT Ecosystem

• Facilitate the Diverse Participants to draw from and improve on Existing Health IT Solutions using Proven Processes to deliver on time Software Platforms, Tools, and Exemplary Applications that are high quality, reliable, scalable, and extensible and maximize User Choice

• Proven Processes of governance, software development, management and collaborative community building so that competitors collaborate and everyone benefits by optimizing to their self interest.

• Provide integration services to Existing Health IT Solutions to preserve, protect and grow existing investments while minimizing organizational and care disruptions.

• Software Platforms, Tools, and Exemplary Applications build interoperable systems that enable patients and their care providers to have access to vital and reliable medical information at the time and place it is needed.

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• Enable Users Choice so the Outcomes of affordability, accessibility, simplicity, higher quality, safety, and lower costs can be realized.

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• Create an open transparent collaborative environment where:

• Recruit Diverse Participants to work together using existing and emerging Innovative Business Models forge a Collaborative Community

• Diverse Participants collaborate to develop communities and software which is for the common good and is free.

• Innovative Business Models used are self sustaining, persist over time and across geographic borders, and transcend patrician [??] initiatives.


• Facilitate the Diverse Participants to draw from and improve on Existing Health IT Solutions using Proven Processes to deliver on time Software Platforms, Tools, and Exemplary Applications that are high quality, reliable, scalable, and extensible and maximize User Choice

• Proven Processes of governance, software development, management and collaborative community building so that competitors collaborate and everyone benefits by optimizing to their self interest.


• Software Platforms, Tools, and Exemplary Applications build interoperable systems that enable patients and their care providers to have access to vital and reliable medical information at the time and place it is needed.


EXTRA SLIDE

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Our Approach:Build a HealthIT Ecosystem

• Create an open transparent collaborative environment where:• Diverse Participants are recruited, and collaborate to develop communities

and software which is for the common good and is free.• Utilize established and Proven Processes of governance, software

development, management and collaborative community building so that competitors collaborate and everyone benefits by optimizing to their self interest.

• Develop Innovative Business Models that are self sustaining, that persist over time, persist across geographic borders, and transcend patrician initiatives.


• Enable members to provide Software Platforms, Tools, and Exemplary Applications to build interoperable systems that enable patients and their care providers to have access to vital and reliable medical information at the time and place it is needed.



ORIGINAL SLIDE

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Cornerstone #2: Proven Processes

• Community building process• Project management process• Development and delivery of software on time and

within budget• Open transparent management • Directed open source software development process• Established and accepted governance• Established Intellectual Property protections and

processes• Technology harvesting process• Integration of existing systems processes

OHT role is to mobilize members to deliver outcomes on time within budget

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Element #3: Business Model Innovations

TBD

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Element #4: Software Platforms, Tools, and Exemplary Applications

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Element #5: Collaborative Community

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Existing #6: Existing Health IT

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?????? Element?? #7: Outcomes

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Our Approach:

• Enabling Users Choice so the Outcomes of affordability, accessibility, simplicity, higher quality, safety, and lower costs can be realized by:

• Recruiting Diverse Participants to work together using existing and emerging Innovative Business Models forge a Collaborative Community

• Facilitating the Diverse Participants to draw from and improve on Existing Health IT Solutions using Proven Processes to deliver on time Software Platforms, Tools, and Exemplary Applications that are high quality, reliable, scalable, and extensible and maximize User Choice

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3 Health ITDimensions

PopulationHealth

HealthCare

Delivery

PersonalHealth

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3 Health ITDimensions

Public Health, Quality

Improvement, & Research

Staff

CareProviders

Individuals& Caretakers

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3 Health ITUser populations

Public Health, Quality

Improvement, & Research

Staff

Care Providers

Individuals& Caretakers

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Updated September 30, 2010 Open Health Tools (OHT) Strategic Plan