EHR Intelligence April 29, 2021
Christopher Jason

ONC’s Micky Tripathi led a recent information blocking event to give healthcare stakeholders his thoughts on the present and future of the information blocking regulations.

Healthcare organizations and stakeholders must move on from a compliance mindset and begin to focus on the vast information blocking opportunities at hand, according to Micky Tripathi, national coordinator for health IT.

“We recognize information blocking is a law because it has civil monetary penalties associated with it,” Tripathi said during the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) information blocking event. “It’s got to be thought of as a compliance mindset.”

However, Tripathi wants compliance to be the floor, not the ceiling, of healthcare stakeholder thoughts and ideas.

On Wednesday, Tripathi headlined WEDI’s “Ready, Set,...

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