Healthcare interoperability has been a buzzword for years. And after decades of incremental progress, the industry is making traction. Information is being exchanged—and in massive quantities; clinicians and healthcare leaders are now pushing for it to be consumable. Meanwhile, we’re still not far along in interoperable systems to allow for national information exchange. So how do we get to Interoperability 2.0?
Micky Tripathi, Ph.D., MPP, is the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. There, he leads the formulation of the federal health IT strategy—and is responsible for advancing interoperability and the exchange of health information nationwide. In other words, Dr. Tripathi owns the federal effort to make nationwide interoperability a reality.
American healthcare is messy, innovative, brilliant, fragmented and often proprietary and parochial, which gums up the momentum for real-world, nationwide interoperability. In this episode, Melanie asks Dr. Tripathi how we get to the next stage of information exchange: interoperability 2.0.
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