Next ONC chief could be in plain sight

He or she might come from outside government, or perhaps from ONC's deep bench
By Bernie Monegain
11:03 AM

Judy Murphy, RN, is deputy national coordinator for programs and policy at ONC. She coordinates federal efforts to assist healthcare providers and organizations adopt health information technology. She also works to promote consumers’ greater understanding and use of health information technology for their own health. She came to ONC in December 2011 with more than 25 years of health informatics experience at Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, where she served as  VP-EHR applications. Her informatics interests lie in system implementation, health IT project management, patient engagement, and the use of technology to support evidence-based practice; she has published and lectured nationally and internationally on these topics. She has a long-standing reputation of patient advocacy and maintaining a “patient-centric” point of view, and approaches her work with unyielding energy as well as passion and commitment to the healthcare transformation enabled by technology. She has served on the Health IT Standards Committee since its inception in May 2009.

 

Doug Fridsma, MD, serves as chief science officer and  director of ONC’s Office of Science & Technology. Before he joined ONC, Fridsma was on the teaching staff in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University and, as a practicing internal medicine physician, had a clinical practice at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale. Fridsma, serves as an interoperability guru, responsible for all programs at ONC that are focused on providing a foundation for interoperable health information exchange.

 

 

 

Jacob Reider, MD, director of ONC’s Office of the Chief Medical Officer, is a family physician with 20 years of experience in health information technology and special interest in clinical innovation, user experience, and clinical decision support. His background includes leadership roles in nearly all facets of the health IT domain – from small start-up companies to academic facilities, primary care medical groups, and large health IT development organizations. Reider has served in directorial positions on boards of several health IT companies, including as chief medical informatics officer for EHR company Allscripts.

 

 

 

Any thoughts about who the next ONC chief might be or should be. Leave us a comment, or email Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain at bernie.monegain@medtechmedia.com .

 

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