Federal Health IT Newsletter - Dec. 30
Federal Leaders Outline 2025 Health IT Priorities
Federal health leaders have explained their modernization priorities amid the presidential transition from improving data access to modernizing the federal electronic health record. Learn more about what the new year may bring to federal health IT.
HHS Gets a New CIO
Jennifer Wendel , the newly appointed CIO at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , outlined her top priorities for the new year, including cybersecurity, customer experience and workforce training, in an upcoming HealthCast with GovCIO Media & Research.
Spoiler alert: she’s targeting cybersecurity, customer experience and workforce training to drive future modernization efforts.
Trump’s HHS Secretary Pick Targets Transparency
With president-elect Donald Trump taking office in just under a month, all eyes are on incoming leadership. If confirmed by the Senate, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Trump’s pick for secretary of HHS, has said he’s committed to providing Americans with health transparency and innovative tools they need to easily access their data and make the best decisions about their health care needs.
“We have a generational opportunity to bring together the greatest minds in science, medicine, industry and government to put an end to the chronic disease epidemic,” Kennedy said. “I will provide Americans with transparency and access to all the data so they can make informed choices for themselves and their families.”
HHS Outlines Data Efforts for 2025
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HHS has already made significant strides in integrating artificial intelligence and advancing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) over the past year, Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and National Coordinator for Health IT and Chief AI Officer Micky Tripathi told GovCIO Media & Research in a Q&A, but the agency isn’t slowing down.
In 2025, Tripathi is focused on three key priorities: developing the digital foundation, advancing interoperability and ensuring AI transparency.
EHR Update: VA Targets Mid-2026 to Resume Rollout
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will focus on “what it means to do continuous improvement of health IT systems to support the needs of [its] end users” once the agency resume rollout of its electronic health record in mid-2026.
“One of the things we as an organization have spent time learning is the muscle memory of what it means to do continuous improvement of health IT systems to support the needs of our end users,” Evans said. “Continuous improvement never stops. The work we’ve been doing during reset isn’t going to stop when we get restarted,” said Neil Evans, MD , acting program executive director at the Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office.
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