Healthcare Innovation March 28, 2025
AcademyHealth says that ‘ambiguity surrounding this reorganization deprives researchers and patients of the clarity needed to make informed plans, posing a reckless threat to ongoing and future initiatives’
Clinical associations, philanthropies, and patient and family organizations all responded with alarm to the sweeping restructuring and downsizing at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on March 27.
So far, HHS has not announced any changes to the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, although there have been rumors that it could be moved under a different office or department.
In the area of research and evaluation, HHS announced it would merge the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) with the Agency...