HHS reorganizes health IT office to focus on policy priorities

The Trump administration is altering the title of the federal well being IT workplace again to the Workplace of the Nationwide Coordinator for Well being Info Know-how (ONC). The Tuesday announcement additionally reverts the group of the workplace to deal with exterior IT coordination, as an alternative of additionally overseeing Well being and Human Companies’ inside use of expertise.

In 2024, the Biden administration had appended Assistant Secretary for Know-how Coverage (ASTP) to the workplace’s title, in addition to moved HHS’ chief expertise officer, chief information officer, and chief AI officer roles to ONC’s purview. The brand new announcement reverses that change, placing these workplaces and a few cybersecurity features again beneath the workplace of the chief info officer.

The adjustments streamline ONC’s purview and focuses it on the administration’s priorities of getting sufferers their well being information and lowering the friction in sharing well being data.