HealthIT Answers December 20, 2021
By Dr. Jay Anders, Chief Medical Officer, Medicomp Systems
I sit down with Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, National Coordinator for Health IT at HHS to discuss some of the big challenges in health IT today, including interoperability. Tripathi, who has spent the last 20 years working in the private and public sector to drive the adoption of technology in healthcare, shares his thoughts about the fragmentation in healthcare, the need for better information sharing, the transition to value-based care payment models and more.
But first, I share a recent experience that underscores healthcare’s ongoing struggle to share healthcare information between providers. I recently lost my 93-year-old mother, who was a complex patient taking 14 medications for 10 medical conditions and...