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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEWSecretary’s 500-Day PlanHHS Plans and PrioritiesThis Strategic Plan for FY 2007–2012incorporates priorities and conceptsfrom the Secretary’s 500-DayPlan, the Secretary’s Ten HealthCare Priority Activities, the DepartmentalObjectives, and the HealthyPeople 2010 Objectives. Althoughsome of these plans and prioritiesmay change from year to year, asampling of the most recent versionsis included here.Secretary Leavitt uses a 500-Day Plan, updated every200 days, as a management tool to guide his energiesin fulfilling the vision of a healthier and more hopefulAmerica. The Secretary focuses on specific strategiesthat will achieve significant progress for the Americanpeople over a 5,000-day horizon. The 500-Day Plansupports the Strategic Plan in guiding the Departmentin achieving its broad policy and program objectives.The priorities include:• Transform the Health Care System;• Modernize Medicare and Medicaid;• Advance Medical Research;• Secure the Homeland;• Protect Life, Family, and Human Dignity; and• Improve the Human Condition Around the World.Secretary’s Health Care PrioritiesIn 2006, the Secretary developed 10 HHS PriorityActivities for America’s Health Care; these too areupdated annually:• Health Care Value Incentives;• Health Information Technology;• Medicare Rx;• Medicaid Modernization;• New Orleans Health System;• Personalized Health Care;• Obesity Prevention;• Pandemic Preparedness;• Emergency Response and Commissioned CorpsRenewal; and• International Health Diplomacy.20 HHS Strategic Plan FY 2007-2012