Healthcare IT News February 4, 2025
Mike Miliard

“Health IT has always been a nonpartisan area for policymakers, so I expect that will largely remain the case,” says longtime policy expert Leigh Burchell.

It’s already been a busy and contentious couple weeks in Washington, with battles across a wide array of government and policy fronts in the early going of the second Trump Administration. Soon, we’ll be learning a lot more about how healthcare and health IT policy will be taking shape going forward.

Robert F. Kennedy, Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has not been confirmed yet, but he inched one step closer with a party-line Finance Committee vote on Feb. 4.

If RFK Jr. clears a final vote in the...

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