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Throughout the national COVID-19 response, government agencies have worked to expand access to care and address long-standing health equity challenges across the public health system.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is focusing on making health care system interoperability more robust and preventing information-blocking across health IT networks and information exchanges, National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi said.

Newly appointed National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi details some of the agency’s top priorities in 2021, such as COVID-19 directives and health equity.

A new challenge within the Department of Health and Human Services aims to explore advanced capabilities for a synthetic health data engine to strengthen how patients make smart and informed health care decisions.