Exclusive Interview: New HHS ONC Leader on Health Data Security
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Micky Tripathi, national coordinator for health IT at HHS
As patients more commonly use smartphones and APIs to access their health information, critical security and privacy considerations need to be top of mind, says Micky Tripathi, the new Department of Health and Human Services national coordinator for health IT. There are real concerns, Tripathi says in a video interview with Information Security Media Group. The challenge that we have is that we are putting into place and encouraging the use of technologies that we believe have an overarching benefit of patients being able to have more access and control over their health information - to use it for purposes that will benefit themselves. But that doesn t mean that there aren t some risks along the way … and
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Washington Editor Joyce Frieden talked with Micky Tripathi, PhD,
MPP, the new head of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology, to find out his plans for health IT in the Biden administration. The interview was conducted with a press person present, and has been edited for length and clarity.
I really appreciate your taking the time to talk to me. For our readers who might not know you yet, can you tell us about your background and what you re bringing to the position?
Tripathi: Sure, happy to. This is my third or fourth career; I ve been in health IT since about the early 2000s. I started out by working out of Indianapolis with the Regenstrief Institute; the institute has been doing a lot of leading-edge work in health informatics for a long time. I went and helped start the Indiana Health Information Exchange IHIE one of the most sustainable health information exchanges in the country.
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Consensus is leaning on its traditional digital fax technology and layering on new technologies to create an end-to-end interoperability solution. It s a massive addressable market that Consensus pegs at a value of $11 billion. (Sergei Domashenko/Shutterstock)
A company primarily known in the healthcare industry for its cloud fax business is aiming to tackle the broader interoperability market.
J2 Global, a conglomerate of media and information services, recently announced plans to split into two businesses, spinning off its internet fax business as a new company called Consensus. The bulk of the company, in media and e-commerce, will remain J2.