Donald Rucker

U.S. National Coordinator for Health IT

Donald Rucker

National Coordinator for Health IT

Incumbent

Assumed office
April 2017[1]
Preceded by| Jon White (interim)[2]
Personal details
Education|

* MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
* MS & MBA, Stanford University[2]

Alma mater| Harvard College[2]

Donald Rucker is an American medical informatician and emergency physician.[3] In April 2017, he was appointed National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.[1] Currently he serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at health tech startup 1upHealth.

## Career

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Rucker has practiced emergency medicine in California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.[1][3] He was Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's first full-time attending in the emergency department.[1] 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.[3][4]

For 13 years, Rucker was chief medical officer at Siemens Healthcare.[1] He was also CMO for worksite clinic provider Premise Health.[3]

## Awards

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In 2003, Rucker and his team won the HIMSS Nicholas Davies Award for a computerized provider order entry workflow they designed for Cincinnati Children's Hospital.[1][3]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f Monegain, Bernie (3 April 2017). "5 things to know about new ONC chief Donald Rucker". Healthcare IT News. HIMSS Media. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
2. ^ a b c Monegain, Bernie (31 March 2017). "Donald Rucker named new national coordinator at ONC". Healthcare IT News. HIMSS Media. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
3. ^ a b c d e "Don Rucker, M.D." HealthIT.gov. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 5 July 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-10-12. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
4. ^ Monegain, Bernie (4 April 2017). "Healthcare leaders, IT organizations have high hopes for ONC chief Donald Rucker". Healthcare IT News. HIMSS Media. Retrieved 13 October 2017.

## External links

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* Google Scholar profile

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