ONC welcomes a new chief nursing officer
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has a new chief nursing officer in Rebecca Freeman, RN.
FReeman will join the agency's Office of Clinical Quality and Safety to spearhead its nursing outreach and help shape its clinical informatics activities.
Prior to joining ONC, Freeman was assistant vice president and Epic national nurse champion at the Hospital Corporation of America. Before that she was chief nursing information officer and manager of the nursing informatics program at the Medical University of South Carolina. She's also an executive nurse fellow at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
In addition to a degree in nursing from the Medical University of South Carolina, Freeman earned a BS in psychology and philosophy from the College of Charleston and a PhD from the Medical University of South Carolina.
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.