Healthcare is an information-intensive enterprise. But too often, paper-based processes and incompatible systems make it difficult or impossible for individuals, families, and health professionals to get the right information at the right time.

The consequences can be costly—and deadly. With rising healthcare costs, an aging population, a shortage of healthcare professionals, and skyrocketing rates of chronic disease, it's never been more urgent to give healthcare the benefits of interoperable, standards-based information technology.

Intel supports healthcare and government leaders in developing policies and standards that promote the effective use of information technology. Our goals are to enhance healthcare services and empower individuals to improve health and wellness.

Building on our long-term commitment to open standards, we collaborate with governments, employers, medical professionals, technology and solution providers, and other stakeholders around the world. Our executives provide policy insights that improve technology adoption. Our senior technologists contribute thousands of hours of hands-on leadership each year to help craft rigorous standards and improve interoperability.

These efforts assist in automating paper-based processes. They enable information to flow smoothly and securely throughout the system, including to individuals and their families.

• Erase policy barriers to global adoption of interoperable healthcare information technologies.
• Remove barriers to adoption of comprehensive, patient-centric electronic medical records-within and among healthcare enterprises.
• Create industry standards and an economically viable ecosystem for personal health systems.
• Define consumer health platform architectures and standards.