Quote(s) Of The Week - 6/12/19

“We want to dictate the what, not the how, in health IT. We aren’t going to micromanage exactly how providers, payers, and innovators make health IT interoperable and patient-accessible—we’re just going to say it has to happen, and let private actors determine the best way to do it.”

Eric D. Hargan, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in comments before the World Health Congress on the approach of the Trump Administration toward solving interoperability.