Fierce Health Payers November 10, 2021
Health IT industry veteran Donald Rucker, M.D. is joining the leadership team at interoperability startup 1upHealth.
Rucker, who served as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under the Trump administration, is jumping on board 1upHealth as its new chief strategy officer. The Boston-based company, founded in 2017, structures claims and clinical data to make it easier for organizations to share information.
As CSO, Rucker will help set the direction for 1upHealth’s ongoing innovations in Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-enabled computing and help healthcare organizations meet the evolving clinical, technical and reimbursement demands for modern data, according to the company.
Rucker will spearhead the company’s work to help providers, payers and app developers aggregate and use health data. He’ll draw...