Thursday, April 18, 2024 - HSI Lunch Seminar Series with Don Rucker, MD, MS Chief Strategy Officer, 1upHealth & former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)

Sparking a Data Revolution in Healthcare via FHIR: Conversations with Leaders from Government, Industry, and Innovators

Part 3:   April 18 - Driving Standards on the Road to FHIR Data Interoperability at 1upHealth

Thursday April 18th
Location: E62-450
Time: 11:30am - 1pm
RSVP at Sloan Groups *Open to All*
Lunch will be provided in person.
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Speaker:
Don Rucker, M.D., M.S.
Chief Strategy Officer, 1upHealth & former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)

Dr. Rucker is an American medical informatician and emergency physician.  In April 2017, he was appointed National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.  Currently he serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at 1up.Health, a world leading FHIR Interoperability Platform vendor.

Physician leader with national clinical informatics success. Strong scientific, computational and practical background in medical computing and decision sciences. Board certified physician with broad clinical experience including at Kaiser Permanente, Beth Israel Deaconess, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Rucker has practiced emergency medicine in California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.   He was Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's first full-time attending in the emergency department.   His teaching background includes 13 years as assistant professor of emergency medicine at University of Pennsylvania Health System and four years, immediately before his appointment to ONC, as professor of emergency medicine and biomedical informatics at Ohio State University.

For 13 years, Rucker was chief medical officer at Siemens Healthcare.  He was also CMO for worksite clinic provider Premise Health.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rucker

Moderators:
Anne Quaadgras, Director, MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative
Doug Williams, Product Lead, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

This is part 3 of a 3-part series