HealthIT Answers April 14, 2021
By Cannon Leavelle, Senior Advisor, Public Affairs and Communications, ONC
ONC Leader Gives Health IT Vision
ONC’s newly appointed national coordinator Micky Tripathi introduced the 2021 ONC Annual Meeting by sharing his vision for the future of health IT strategy and policy throughout the healthcare system. He talked about the agency’s role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, striving for health equity through the use of health IT (he calls it “equity by design”), advancing interoperability of health information, and reducing the burden of health IT on clinicians.
Addressing Persistent Inequities in Health Care
A key focus of this year’s Annual Meeting was the impact of social determinants of health (SDOH) data in health care. Panelists highlighted how health IT can enable...