ONC’s Karen DeSalvo tapped again for HHS

Karen DeSalvo, MD, head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), has been nominated by President Barack Obama for an assistant secretary position at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to a White House announcement. The nomination is subject to Senate confirmation.

DeSalvo, named ONC chief in January 2014, took on the additional responsibility of overseeing the nation’s Ebola task force in late 2014 as a part-time acting assistant secretary of HHS, juggling both posts.

No official announcement has been made as to who would replace DeSalvo should her nomination be confirmed by the Senate.

Pamela Tabar

Pamela Tabar was editor-in-chief of I Advance Senior Care from 2013-2018. She has worked as a writer and editor for healthcare business media since 1998, including as News Editor of Healthcare Informatics. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Kent State University and a master’s degree in English from the University of York, England.