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The four-year effort will focus on improving data collection—especially around race and ethnicity—and training a more diverse health informatics and tec...
Exclusive Interview: New HHS ONC Leader on Health Data Security Compliance Compliance Compliance HealthInfoSec) • May 7, 2021 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 In...
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 ...
Full speed ahead on interoperability: Q&A with ONC head Micky Tripathi Tripathi addressed what the government can do to build on the regulations, noting further delays are improbable. Published May 3, 2021 Adeline Kon/Healthcare Dive Early last year, before COVID-19 swept the nation, HHS was busy finalizing two highly anticipated rules promising to free up the U.S.'s siloed medical data. One of the rules, from the Office of the National Coordinator, the agency that regulates the nation's health information technology fram...