“Donald Rucker, MD, former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has joined 1upHealth, a pioneering Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) platform for health data interoperability. Dr. Rucker joins 1upHealth as Chief Strategy Officer, the next step in his career-long commitment to making healthcare efficient and affordable.”
“As CSO, Dr. Rucker will help set the direction for 1upHealth’s ongoing innovations in FHIR-enabled computing and bring these to customers to help them meet the evolving clinical, technical, and reimbursement demands for modern data. 1upHealth is an interoperable, cloud-based FHIR platform that is unifying clinical and claims data to meet the compliance regulations of today and the analytical needs of the future to realize the full potential of FHIR for improving patient care and healthcare operations. The 1upHealth platform computes on FHIR data and connects customers to an ecosystem of payers, providers, app developers, patients, and biopharma. 1upHealth gives organizations the ability to meet the requirements of the CMS FHIR API rule while normalizing and aggregating data to be used accurately, and at scale, with a growing set of higher-level services on top of FHIR including smart search, batch loading, sophisticated end-user management, security, and more.”
“’I am excited to join 1upHealth because the team has built a unique software portfolio to provide customers scalable FHIR services with modern, computable architecture that will help link payers, providers, and the rapidly expanding healthcare app economy, all to give patients new and better care while securely protecting their privacy,’ said Dr. Rucker. ‘The future of healthcare depends on broader access to standardized, normalized and highly computable data, enabling quality improvement and, ultimately, transforming the industry.'”
“As a board-certified physician, Dr. Rucker has practiced emergency medicine in four states and was Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s first full-time attending in the emergency department. As National Coordinator at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), he led the development and issuance of ONC’s 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule which supports patient access and interoperability of health data. Dr. Rucker was also the co-developer of the first Microsoft Windows-based electronic medical record (EMR) in the world…” Read the full press release here.
Source: Former National Coordinator Don Rucker, MD, Joins 1upHealth as Chief Strategy Officer – November 10, 2021. 1upHealth.
