HealthInfoNet is pleased to have Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, joining us at our upcoming Board of Directors meeting this month. At this meeting, Dr. Tripathi will serve as a guest speaker to provide an update on the national interoperability strategy and to discuss how HealthInfoNet fits into this vision. In his role as National Coordinator, Dr. Tripathi leads the formulation of the federal health information technology (IT) strategy and coordinates federal health IT policies, standards, programs, and investments.

About Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP:

Dr. Tripathi has over 20 years of experience across the health IT landscape. Prior to becoming the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, he served as Chief Alliance Officer for Arcadia, a healthcare data and software company focused on population health management and value-based care, the project manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of FHIR, and a board member of HL7, the Sequoia Project, the CommonWell Health Alliance, and the CARIN Alliance.

Dr. Tripathi served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company. He was also the founding President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, a statewide HIE partnered with the Regenstrief Institute, an Executive Advisor to investment firm LRVHealth, and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

He holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University, and an AB in political science from Vassar College. Prior to receiving his PhD, he was a Presidential Management Fellow and a senior operations research analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC, for which he received the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal.