Strategic Plan Process

Process

HITOC Meetings: HITOC discusses components of the Strategic Plan at their meetings, which occur the first Thursday of every even month. All HITOC meetings, workgroup meetings, and educational webinars are open to the public. You can view the schedule for upcoming HITOC meetings here. All HITOC and workgroup meetings are recorded, and slides and materials from each meeting are posted on the respective websites. Any strategic plan documents will be posted on our materials page as they develop.

HITOC's Workgroups: HITOC also chartered a Health Information Exchange (HIE) Workgroup (completed August 2023) and a Community Information Exchange (CIE) Workgroup (completed November 2022) to dive more deeply into specific topics. These groups developed “concept papers" on their recommended strategies to accelerate, support, and improve HIE and CIE in Oregon to inform HITOC and OHA.

Community Engagement: HITOC's discussions and strategic planning are informed by an ongoing cycle of community engagement. The work to update the Strategic Plan began in late 2019 but was paused in March 2020 due to COVID-19. An aspect of this work involved significant community engagement consisting of listening sessions, meetings with organizations and associations, individual interviews, written input, and more. HITOC conducted additional community engagement in Summer and Fall of 2023 to further guide HITOC's development of the Strategic Plan. Once completed, the Strategic Plan will be publicly available on HITOC's website and shared with those who engaged and others to continue the engagement cycle and gather input for the future. Continued periodic community engagement will inform any interim updates and future Strategic Plans, continuing the cycle. To see a summary of past engagement see: Community Engagement and Input Report 2018-2023.

OHA Support: In addition, OHA staff support this work in several ways: providing background and landscape on health IT topics, slides and documents describing health IT challenges and opportunities, facilitating HITOC discussion and public listening sessions, and summarizing HITOC goals and strategies under consideration for public input.

Timeline

For more detail on the timeline of HITOC's past and upcoming work, see the slides and recording from HITOC's August 2023 meeting.