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A Market-Driven or Policy-Driven Approach to Health IT Innovation? ONC’s Deputy National Coordinator on the Path Forward
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders
English - July 15, 2021 08:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MB - ★★★★ - 25 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Business Investing healthcare health systems healthcare innovation digital health venture capital Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The accelerated pace of innovation in digital health, record-breaking investments in the sector and even some of the technology developed to navigate the pandemic wouldn’t have been possible without groundwork laid by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). And there’s probably no one who understands ONC’s past, present and future role better than Steve Posnack.
Steve is a fixture at ONC, joining a year after it was formed in 2004 and serving for the past 16 years in various capacities through four administrations. Since 2019, Steve has served as Deputy National Coordinator, playing an integral role in policy development, technology initiatives and investments, budget prioritization and industry-wide coordination.
In this episode of Healthcare is Hard, Steve gives a background and history of ONC, explaining how it fits into the Department of Health and Human Services and the overall role it plays in the federal government. He shares insights that anyone in the healthcare innovation ecosystem should understand and his conversation with Keith Figlioli covers a number of topics including:
To hear Steve and Keith talk about these topics and more, listen to this episode of Healthcare is Hard.