Advocate for Change

• PFCD Policy Platform
  • Advance sustainable chronic disease prevention models
  • Promote healthy lifestyles & disease prevention
  • Encourage & reward advances in clinical practice & research
  • Accelerate improvements of health information technology
  • Reduce health disparities
• Candidate Stances
• Take Action

Accelerate improvements in the quality and availability of health information technology (HIT) throughout the health care system

Ideas for Change:

• Provide incentives for providers to implement HIT improvements to improve the quality of care and help overcome cost barriers
• Ensure that HIT is seamless across health care providers and settings
• Encourage providers to use HIT in providing preventive and chronic health care and tracking quality of care
• Facilitate Americans’ ability to track their own health and to obtain information on conditions, treatment options, and quality through technology
• Maximize use of HIT to expand consumer participation in clinical trials and health surveillance systems