“Speaking on Thursday at Sirona Strategies’ Health IT Leadership Roundtable, newly-minted National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi offered an overview of ONC’s strategic priorities for the near future, and described how the agency is doing tactical work on wider Biden administration policy goals.”
“Of course, said Tripathi, ‘Job number one is COVID-19 right now. We are supporting all of the work related to the execution of the executive orders … [and] make sure that every single one of those is hitting the mark in terms of the priority, the urgency, the importance and the execution.’”
“There have been a flurry of executive orders from the White House since President Biden took office, of course, but one of the most potentially consequential is entitled ‘Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats.’”
“Among the seven or eight executive order workgroups Tripathi and other ONC leaders are involved with, they’re co-leading a task force focused on that one – which puts the focus on improving public health data systems.”
“‘One of the sections of the executive order calls for a review of interoperability and connectivity related to public health data systems,’ said Tripathi.”
“‘So we’ve launched a work group that we’re co-leading with the CDC and working in very close partnership with them to take a look at what have we…’” Read the full article here.
Source: ONC chief Micky Tripathi talks public health data systems and ‘health equity by design’ – By Mike Miliard, March 12, 2021. Healthcare IT News.
