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Jon White, M.D.

Jon White, M.D.

Dr. Jon White, Deputy National Coordinator, is a family physician who has dedicated his career to improving health and health care quality through the use and sharing of electronic health information. Dr. White has been working in partnership with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) since 2004, and is also ONC’s Acting Chief Medical Officer. ONC is at the forefront of the nation’s efforts to adopt and meaningfully use health information technology, and achieve health information technology interoperability, as a foundational element of better health for everyone in America. Dr. Jon White, Acting National Coordinator, is a family physician who has dedicated his career to improving health and health care quality through the use and sharing of electronic health information. At ONC, Dr. White provides high level executive direction and leadership for all ONC programs and policies, and advances key priorities. He has led mission-critical activities, including the publication of high priority, nationally impactful regulations, the publication of the Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, a widely publicized Congressional Report on Information Blocking, and ONC’s efforts in the Precision Medicine Initiative. Before his service at ONC, Dr. White was Director of the Division of Health IT at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In his role at AHRQ, Dr. White directed hundreds of projects in 48 States, including research, demonstration and implementation projects on a wide variety of health IT applications and issues. Dr. White has deep experience working with federal government partners (including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs), as well as key health care professional, patient, policy, and health IT stakeholder groups to implement major health care initiatives. Dr. White trained in family medicine at the University of Virginia and Lancaster General Hospital in Pennsylvania. He is a recipient of the national AAFP Award for Excellence in Graduate Education. Dr. White trained in family medicine at the University of Virginia and Lancaster General Hospital in Pennsylvania. He is a recipient of the national AAFP Award for Excellence in Graduate Education.

Jon White, M.D.'s Latest Blog Posts

  1. NIH and ONC Launch the Sync for Science (S4S) Pilot: Enabling Individual Health Data Access and Donation

    March 21, 2016, 11:46 am / Jon White, M.D. / Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

    S4S pilots are coming!

    On February 25, 2016, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), announced the launch of Sync for Science (S4S), a pilot to allow individuals to access their health data and send it to researchers in support of the goals of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). Individual data donation will be a key component of the PMI Cohort Program, which aims to enroll more than one million U.S. participants who will volunteer to donate health data about themselves for precision medicine research. ONC, NIH, and the Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical Informatics will coordinate the implementation of the S4S pilot in collaboration with EHR developers who have committed to participate: Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, drchrono, Epic, and McKesson.

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  2. Do you have a complaint about your Electronic Health Record? ONC has a new tool that might help

    September 16, 2015, 12:30 pm / Jon White, M.D. / Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

    Ever have a complaint about the inability to share electronic health information and didn’t know where to turn? Have you ever needed to tell someone about your concerns with your certified health IT product, such as an electronic health record (EHR) and didn’t know where to go?

    Today, ONC launched www.healthit.gov/healthitcomplaints to address these concerns and be the single point of entry for you to report problems or complaints about your health IT product. The new complaint tool will help us ensure your complaint or concern finds its way to the appropriate person at ONC or elsewhere in the federal government.

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  3. Health IT Standards Committee and Task Forces

    May 20, 2015, 9:00 am / Jon White, M.D. / Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

    Spring has arrived in Washington and it is the season of change.  In our ongoing pursuit of agile and effective public service, we turn our attention today to how we get timely and effective public input.

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  4. Health Data Outside the Doctor’s Office

    December 2, 2014, 10:00 am / Jon White, M.D. / Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

    Health primarily happens outside the doctor’s office—playing out in the arenas where we live, learn, work and play. In fact, a minority of our overall health is the result of the health care we receive External Links Disclaimer.  If we’re to have an accurate picture of health, we need more than what is currently captured in the electronic health record.

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  5. Meaningful Use Makes Lower Adverse Drug Rates A Reality

    August 15, 2014, 1:00 pm / Jon White, M.D. / Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

    When the Health Information Technology for Economic and Digital Health (HITECH) Act was passed in 2009 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, hopes were high that widespread use of electronic health records (EHRs) would reduce the rate of adverse drug events in hospitals.  Advocates believed incentives that encouraged hospitals and physicians to adopt EHRs would not only encourage faster adoption, but help to improve patient health. 

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