Office of the National Coordinator: Office Organization

Kelly Cronin
Director, Office of Programs and Coordination

Office of the National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology
Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201

Kelly Cronin has returned to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. She was senior advisor to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Before CMS, she led initiatives to incentivize electronic health record adoption in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. She also served as the Executive Director of the Council for the Application of Health Information Technology in the Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. Cronin directed patient safety initiatives at the Food and Drug Administration and coordinated the drafting of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act while working for the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee. Her work experience includes health policy analysis, health services research, and clinical trial coordination, on a national and international level, for various organizations in the private sector. She is a faculty member in the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University and a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Health and Health Services.