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5 things to know about new ONC chief Donald Rucker

By Bernie Monegain

The newly named chief of the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Information Technology, Donald W. Rucker, MD, is being lauded as one of the most qualified choices to lead that agency.

He has been emergency room doctor, internal medicine physician, a clinical informatics expert, an inventor, a designer and researcher and innovator and for the past four years, he was professor at Ohio State University, where he taught clinical Emergency Medicine and Biomedical Informatics.

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