Policy Innovation Is Outpacing Technology at the Intersection of Health Care and Human Services
MedCity News July 19, 2024
Profound opportunities and challenges are playing out at the intersection of the two.
The stereotype of the technology sector designing bright shiny objects that usher the rest of us into the future is deeply ingrained in our culture. However, health care and human services tend to be policy-driven markets, with technologists seeking to keep up and frontline organizations caught in the middle. We’re seeing this dynamic — and the profound opportunities and challenges it generates — play out at the intersection of these two systems today.
Last September, at an invite-only gathering of policy and technology leaders in California, Micky Tripathi, the Director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, and Marko Mijic, Undersecretary of the California...