The Ministry of Health and Social Services revealed on Tuesday that Thomas Keane had been operated to serve the first official of the agency’s technological policy and national health coordinator.
Keane, radiologist with previous experience at HHS, is the second person to be assistant secretary for technological policy after the creation of the role as part of the Biden administration. In a job In LinkedIn on Tuesday, ASTP said that “Keane leadership would play a central role in training the future of the #Healthit and HHS technological strategy”.
According to his organic On the ASTP website, Keane previously worked in the office he is now heading and as the main advisor to the assistant secretary of HHS. In these roles, Keane was part of the COVVI-19 response from the Department as a administrator of the Four a rescue fund and led the research agency for research on health care and the national action network of the nursing nursing home.
Keane joins the office less than a year after obtaining his new name and his responsibilities to develop and supervise the data, technology and policy of the agency. In July 2024, HHS announcement that the national coordinator at the time – Micky Tripathi – would assume the new title of assistant secretary, and the main technology of the department, the data and the officials of the DI would be moved under this newly struck arm.
Consequently, the existing office of the national coordinator, which has already supervised the standards for the exchange of health data, was renamed to reflect its role of policy – first at ASTP / ONC and now just ASTP.
However, it is not yet clear if all the roles under ASTP will remain in place. HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. launched a department restructuring And a large -scale reduction in force to align with the walking orders of President Donald Trump on the remodeling and narrowing of the federal government.
Keane adds to the growing framework of technology and computer leaders of the department under the Trump administration. In addition to Listing officially Palanta Alum Clark Minor as online HHS information director, the department has also recently updated the list of civil servants This relation to him.
Among these changes, Kevin M. Duvall was listed as assistant CIO, replacing the Yarborough Monte. DUVALL has occupied several roles at HHS, notably CTO and CAIO of the Administration for children and families and as an acting CIO of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, commonly known as Arpa-H.
In a liendin job Regarding this decision, Duvall said that as a deputy, he would be “the senior career for HHS technology and would work to support modernization”.