DeSalvo remains committed to ONC goals
During the Nov. 4 Health IT Policy Committee meeting, Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, national coordinator for health IT, thanked everyone for their support and reiterated her continued leadership at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT after being named acting assistant secretary for health. She will remain chair of the committee.
Paul Tang, MD, vice chair of the committee, said she will work with Acting National Coordinator Lisa Lewis in “guiding” ONC. He also said that development and finalization of ONC’s interoperability roadmap and Meaningful Use Stage 3 requirements is ongoing work “weaving its way through the clearance process and clearly has the imprint of Karen’s guidance, so that will be quite stable.”
ONC's work, she said, "is not lower priority and not stopping. I feel the need to reassure people on behalf of the secretary [of the Department of Health and Human Services] when she asked me to lean in [on the Ebola situation] that health IT remains a priority. It's woven into delivery system reform which is at the very top of her agenda."
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Editor Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in health communication. She has worked in hospital, academic and publishing settings over the past 20 years. Beth joined TriMed in 2005, as editor of CMIO and Clinical Innovation + Technology. When not covering all things related to health IT, she spends time with her husband and three children.