The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health,safety,and well-being of America". Before the separate federal Department of Education was created in 1979,it was called the Department of Health,Education,and Welfare (HEW).
The surgeon general of the United States is the operational head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government of the United States. The Surgeon General's office and staff are known as the Office of the Surgeon General (OSG),which is housed within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health.
Sylvia Mary Burwell is an American government and non-profit executive who has been the 15th president of American University since June 1,2017. Burwell is the first woman to serve as the university's president. Burwell earlier served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. President Barack Obama nominated Burwell on April 11,2014. Burwell's nomination was confirmed by the Senate on June 5,2014,by a vote of 78–17. She served as Secretary until the end of the Obama administration. Previously,she was the Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from 2013 to 2014.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is a staff division of the Office of the Secretary,within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ONC leads national health IT efforts,charged as the principal federal entity to coordinate nationwide efforts to implement and use the most advanced health information technology and the electronic exchange of health information.
Aneesh Paul Chopra is an American executive who served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States. He was appointed in 2009 by President Barack Obama and was at the White House through 2012. Chopra previously served as Virginia's Secretary of Technology under Governor Tim Kaine. Chopra was a candidate in 2013 for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He is the author of Innovative State:How New Technologies Can Transform Government (2014) and co-founder and president of CareJourney. In 2015 he joined Albright Stonebridge Group as a senior advisor.
Corinna E. Lathan is an American entrepreneur,engineer,and social activist. She is the Chief Executive Officer,Co-Founder,and Board Chair of AnthroTronix,Inc.,a biomedical research and development company headquartered in Silver Spring,Maryland,USA. Lathan is recognized for her work on digital health software and assistive technology.
Dan Riskin is an American entrepreneur and surgeon. As an expert in healthcare artificial intelligence,Riskin has promoted healthcare quality improvement and helped shape policy in the US and globally. Riskin's companies,featured in Forbes and The Wall Street Journal,have influenced the care of millions of patients. He continues to practice,teach,and perform research as Adjunct Professor of Surgery and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics Research at Stanford University.
Todd Park is a Korean American entrepreneur and government executive. He served as Chief Technology Officer of the United States and technology advisor for U.S. President Barack Obama.
The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources' standard is a set of rules and specifications for exchanging electronic health care data. It is designed to be flexible and adaptable,so that it can be used in a wide range of settings and with different health care information systems. The goal of FHIR is to enable the seamless and secure exchange of health care information,so that patients can receive the best possible care. The standard describes data formats and elements and an application programming interface (API) for exchanging electronic health records (EHR). The standard was created by the Health Level Seven International (HL7) health-care standards organization.
The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is a competitive fellowship program that pairs top innovators from the private sector,non-profits,and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate on solutions that aim to deliver significant results in months,not years. It was established in 2012 and has operated continuously since then. The program focuses on generating measurable results,using innovation techniques from private industry such as Lean Startup,Design Thinking,and Agile Development.
Health Policy and Technology is a quarterly peer-reviewed healthcare journal that was established in 2012 and published by Elsevier on behalf of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. Professor Wendy L. Currie was the founding Editor-in-Chief,from 2012 to 2017. It is one of two official journals,the other being the Postgraduate Medical Journal. It covers health policy and development,assessment of clinical and cost-effectiveness,and implementation of all types of medical technology,including drugs,devices,diagnostics,and eHealth platforms. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus,Social Sciences Citation Index,and Embase. According to the Journal Citation Reports,the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 5.211.
Karen Bollinger DeSalvo is an American business executive,physician and public health expert. She has been Google’s chief health officer since 2019. Previously,she served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Health,National Coordinator for Health Information Technology,and Director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).
Jeroen Tas is a Dutch entrepreneur and senior executive in the healthcare,information technology and financial services industries. In February 2017,he assumed the role as Chief Innovation &Strategy Officer at Philips Healthcare,a position he held until July 2021. He currently works on Strategic Business Development and is also a member of the executive committee at Royal Philips.
Ana Maiques is a Spanish entrepreneur and business executive. She is CEO of neuroscience-based medical device company Neuroelectrics,based in Barcelona,which produces devices designed to stimulate and treat the brain.
Nina Vasan is an American psychiatrist and author of the Amazon #1 best-selling book Do Good Well:Your Guide to Leadership,Action and Innovation. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is currently the Founder and Executive Director of Brainstorm:The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation at Stanford University. She won the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
LaVerne H. Council,MBA,DBA was the Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer for the Office of Information and Technology within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Council assumed this role in July 2015. President Obama nominated Council to the role in March 2015. Council was confirmed by the 114th Congress on June 23,2015,making Council the first female CIO of a Cabinet-level federal agency. She managed a $4.2B Information Technology (IT) appropriation,the first centralized and only IT appropriation in the federal government.
The Chief Technology Officer of the Department of Health and Human Services is the top information technology development official in the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The position was established in 2009.
Stephen T. Parente is an American health economist. He currently serves as a Professor of Finance and the Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair at the Carlson School of Management and Finance at the University of Minnesota. In April 2017,President Donald Trump nominated Parente to be Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
John Bardis is a former Assistant Secretary of Administration (ASA) for the U.S. Department of Health &Human Services. He is also the founder of Medassets,a US healthcare company.
Avner Halperin is an Israeli entrepreneur,EyeControl's and EarlySense Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is also research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School,an adjunct professor at Tel Aviv University,and leads global innovation initiatives for Sheba Medical Center.
