Inside Health Care Mini-Episode 5: A View from the Summit with Dr. Don Rucker

November 2, 2022 · David J. Smolar

Don Rucker

We continue our limited Inside Health Care series, A View from the Summit, featuring interviews recorded in person with speakers and staff from NCQA’s first Health Innovation Summit. In this mini episode, we feature part of an interview with Summit speaker and interoperability expert Dr. Don Rucker.

This mini episode focuses on the efforts to make the exchange of digital health records and other data go from penciled pipe dream to streamlined reality. Dr. Don Rucker is Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth. He recently served as the National Coordinator at ONC – that’s the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology – where he led the writing of the ONC 21st Century Cures Act Interoperability Rules. At the 2022 Health Innovation Summit, Dr. Rucker spoke at a presentation called: Evolving Measures from Paper to Fully Executable Software Using Digital Quality Measures and FHIR.

About the Author

David J. Smolar

David J. Smolar is NCQA's Senior Multimedia Specialist. A proud member of SAG-AFTRA with over 25 years experience as a video editor in media and broadcasting, David edits and masters video and audio, creates motion graphics and provides live video production for the organization. David earned an M.A. in Film & Digital Video from American University in Washington, DC, and holds Adobe Professional Certification in Premiere. Producer, writer, host and digital editor of the "Inside Health Care" podcast, David started with NCQA in 2021.