The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named Dr. Mark Roche as the agency’s first chief healthcare informatics officer where he will be helping to lead the government’s interoperability strategy.
Roche is a former Northwestern University professor and NIH researcher focused on medical informatics and healthcare interoperability. He also served a physician advisor for ONC and HHS where his portfolio included digitization of data using clinical terminologies and technologies like machine learning and natural language processing.
