Healthcare Gets a High-Tech Makeover at HHS

Dr. Munr Kazmir
The Startup
Published in
5 min readOct 1, 2020

The Dept. of Health and Human Services is expanding Telehealth, using AI to target obsolete regulations, and keeping the public informed via podcast.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan. (photo: United States Department of Health and Human Services)

Over the past few years, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Eric Hargan has quietly led some of the Trump Administration’s most important HHS initiatives, including deregulation, a focus on patient-centered healthcare, and moving…