ONC's Tripathi on what's next for interoperability ONC's Tripathi on what's next for interoperability Modern Healthcare technology reporter Jessica Kim Cohen caught up with Micky Tripathi, who in January was tapped by the Biden administration to lead HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, to talk about landmark data-sharing regulations that recently went into effect. The ONC's rule, a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act, was released last year but implementation was pushed back to April 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The following is an edited transcript. Modern Healthcare: Now that ONC's information-blocking regulations have gone it effect, what's next for the agency in terms of continuing that interoperability push?