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- The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's top goals include prioritizing interoperability, aligning with federal partners, centering health equity and continuing to work toward addressing the COVID-19 crisis, said ONC head Micky Tripathi in an opening keynote for the agency's annual meeting Monday.
- Finally, Tripathi forecasted a future emphasis on "health equity by design": centering equity as a guiding principle for system developers. "That's a very important part of how we're thinking about health equity and interoperability and health information in general," he said. "Making sure health equity is a prime consideration."
- Implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act's interoperability rules will give stakeholders the opportunity to eliminate some interoperability-related confusion, he predicted – as will wider availability of APIs. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA, can also be an important lever to work toward low-effort data sharing, said Tripathi, "so a user doesn't have to think about what network they're on."
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