MedCity News July 5, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic shone a harsh light on how siloed the public health infrastructure is, and the ONC is working along with other government agencies to integrate it with the existing data-sharing ecosystem. According to Dr. Micky Tripathi, head of the agency, standardizing data will be essential to this integration.
Bolstering the nation’s public health infrastructure will be a cross-departmental effort in government, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is carving out the role it will play related to data sharing.
Speaking at a virtual Health Affairs Policy Spotlight event on Thursday, ONC head Dr. Micky Tripathi said that the agency is working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to break down...
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