ASTP Annual Meeting

December 4-5, 2024  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington DC

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The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy Annual Meeting is back in Washington, DC on December 4-5, 2024. 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 they reflect on 20 years and look ahead to the future of better health enabled by health IT.

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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