The Trump administration is changing the name of the federal health IT office back to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The Tuesday announcement also reverts the organization of the office to focus on external IT coordination, instead of also overseeing Health and Human Services’ internal use of technology.
In 2024, the Biden administration had appended Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) to the office’s title, as well as moved HHS’s chief technology officer, chief data officer, and chief AI officer roles to ONC’s purview. The new announcement reverses that change, putting those offices and some cybersecurity functions back under the office of the chief information officer.
The changes streamline ONC’s purview and focuses it on the administration’s priorities of getting patients their health data and decrease the friction in sharing health records.
