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Micky Tripathi was supposed to be a doctor. His mother was a doctor. His father was a doctor. And yes, even his grandfather was a doctor. But what Tripathi ended up doing didn’t stray too far from his early pre-med ambitions. “There was a big push to become a doctor,” says Tripathi. “In college, I decided that wasn’t for me.” Tripathi charted his own course to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and in his role as the National Coordinator for Health IT, Tripathi is responsible for advancing the exchange of health information nationwide.