Washington Editor Joyce Frieden talked with Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, the new head of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology, to find out his plans for health IT in the Biden administration. The interview was conducted with a press person present, and has been edited for length and clarity. I really appreciate your taking the time to talk to me. For our readers who might not know you yet, can you tell us about your background and what you're bringing to the position? Tripathi: Sure, happy to. This is my third or fourth career; I've been in health IT since about the early 2000s. I started out by working out of Indianapolis with the Regenstrief Institute; the institute has been doing a lot of leading-edge work in health informatics for a long time. I went and helped start the Indiana Health Information Exchange -- IHIE -- one of the most sustainable health information exchanges in the country.