The top-level ministerial and health-sector leadership that was essential to developing a national
eHealth vision is now equally important for the development of a national eHealth action plan.
Maintaining this support may involve formally recognizing the start of the action planning
process. This creates a clear separation from the development of the national eHealth vision,
and can be used to focus leaders on the objectives of, and their role in, the next phase of the
process. This can also be used to re-energize those involved, following what may have been a
complex or lengthy process to develop the national eHealth vision. However, capitalizing on
the momentum gained from that exercise and moving immediately after its endorsement to
developing the action plan is by far the best way to maintain leadership and support