4sight Health October 23, 2024
Earlier this month, Micky Tripathi, Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC), wrote a candid post for the Health IT Buzz blog. For those keeping track, ASTP/ONC is the new name of the former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information, or what we used to call ONC.
Anyway, Tripathi said the root cause of information blocking in healthcare is people, not processes or technology.
“What is abundantly clear is that it is behavior, rather than technology, that is far and away the biggest impediment to progress,” he wrote.
It’s not that healthcare organizations can’t share protected health information. It’s that they won’t share protected...
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