Healthcare IT News March 12, 2021
Mike Miliard

As he focuses on shoring up data-sharing resiliency and ensuring that new IT initiatives bake in SDOH as a “fundamental design criterion,” the new national coordinator also reminded people about an important April 5 start date.

Speaking on Thursday at Sirona Strategies’ Health IT Leadership Roundtable, newly-minted National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi offered an overview of ONC’s strategic priorities for the near future, and described how the agency is doing tactical work on wider Biden administration policy goals.

Of course, said Tripathi, “Job number one is COVID-19 right now. We are supporting all of the work related to the execution of the executive orders … [and] make sure that every single one of those is hitting the mark...

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