Federal Health Architecture (FHA)

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Overview

The Federal Health Architecture (FHA) was established as an eGov Line of Business in response to The President's Management Agenda calling for increased efficiency and effectiveness in government operations. The FHA is responsible for:

• Leveraging federal expertise in creating a federal framework that would be derived from a national health IT infrastructure.
• Supporting federal activities in the development and adoption of health IT standards.
• Ensuring that federal agencies can seamlessly exchange health data between and among themselves, with state, local and tribal governments, and with private sector healthcare organizations.

The FHA is managed within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) at HHS and is driven by the President's health IT plan, which calls for the widespread use of interoperable electronic health records (EHRs) by 2014.

FHA contributes to the President's health IT plan through:

• Input: A coordinated federal voice and collaboration on national health IT solutions
• Implementation: Providing implementation and planning guidance to federal agencies for standards-compliant health IT investments in support of interoperability
• Accountability: Ensure accountability for health IT activities in the federal space to advance interoperability

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