Forgetting About Interoperability Is a Sign of Success

He may refer to himself as “incredibly impatient” or “a hopeless simplifier” and while Micky Tripathi, Ph.D., may very well be those things, it's for good reason.   

And it happens to be the same reason we think of him as a partner in advancing healthcare interoperability.

Tripathi is currently serving as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Tripathi has dedicated his career to improving technology and interoperability to simplify patient care nationwide.

In referencing Tripathi’s accomplishments helping ONC reach a major milestone recently, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said, “I feel like we’re watching the Big Bang occur in 2023,” as the first Qualified Health Information Networks^TM (QHIN^TM) under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement^SM (TEFCA^SM) became operational just this month.