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)

Don Rucker, M.D.

Chief Strategy Officer, 1upHealth & former National Coordinator Health Information Technology (ONC)

1upHealth

https://www.linkedin.com/in/donruckermd/

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

Anne Quaadgras

Director

MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative

Anne Quaadgras is the Director of the MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative and a Senior Lecturer at  MIT Sloan.

Her work focuses on health systems transformation, and the role of information technology in supporting that change.

Prior to her doctoral work, Anne was a management consultant for fifteen years, specializing in improving decision-making and investment processes in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and financial services industries.

She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in chemical engineering from MIT. Anne earned her doctorate in information systems at Boston University, where her dissertation research explored how globally distributed groups of experts recognize and respond to operational problems.