Source: Health Data Management
“We want our federal partners to think of us as a service agency to their missions,” Tripathi says. “We’re here to say let’s figure out how we can jointly solve your problem. How can we best use the things that we have in our arsenal, from an agency perspective, with respect to standards, with respect to interoperability, with information blocking rules, with all the authority that we have? I think we’re getting a lot of great collaboration with our federal agency partners … because they’re seeing us, more and more, as problem solvers to help them better accomplish their missions.” As Posnack describes it, ONC succeeds best when it works itself out of its original remit – when the underlying IT becomes so transparent and empowering that it just does what it’s supposed to do in the background, enabling clinicians and healthcare administrators to focus on using the data and underlying insights to effectively and efficiently improve patient care.