ONC restructures as HITECH funding dries up
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is moving forward with restructuring as HITECH’s health IT infrastructure and program investments draw to a close.
Under the new structure, instead of nine offices reporting up through deputy national coordinators, a total of 10 offices will be headed by a director reporting directly to National Health IT Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc and Deputy National Coordinator Jacob Reider, MD.
The 10 offices, and their directors, are:
- Office of Care Transformation: Kelly Cronin
- Office of the Chief Privacy Officer: Joy Pritts
- Office of the Chief Operating Officer: Lisa Lewis
- Office of the Chief Scientist: Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD
- Office of Clinical Quality and Safety: Judy Murphy, RN
- Office of Planning, Evaluation and Analysis: Seth Pazinski
- Office of Policy: Jodi Daniel
- Office of Programs: Kim Lynch
- Office of Public Affairs and Communications: Nora Super
- Office of Standards and Technology: Steve Posnack
“This functional realignment will improve the overall effectiveness and efficiency of ONC by combining similar functions, elevating critical priority functions and providing a flatter and more accountable reporting structure. In addition, this realignment will support our focus on developing and implementing an interoperability roadmap, supporting care transformation and establishing a framework to support appropriate use of health data to further meaningful consumer engagement, system-level quality and safety of care, improvements in the public’s health and advancements in science,” wrote DeSalvo in a May 30 internal memo.