Healthcare DIVE February 17, 2021
Rucker has been national coordinator since 2017, and in this exit interview looked back and forecast what industry might expect from the Biden administration.
The U.S. healthcare industry is notoriously slow to change, a fact evident in the country’s outdated and clunky IT system. Patients’ health data is siloed in various provider and payer databases, making it often extremely difficult to access and control.
Modernizing this system is spearheaded on the the federal side by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, an HHS agency that regulates the nation’s health information technology framework. Since April 2017, ONC has been led by longtime medical informatician and emergency physician Don Rucker.
Rucker’s tenure has been characterized by efforts to leverage...
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