100 Most Influential People in Healthcare - 2019

Rucker is an advocate for open application programming interfaces—APIs—a new approach to address the sharing of patient data, which he says will reshape the healthcare industry. In August, ONC said they were working on app privacy with Congress. In October, Rucker told Modern Healthcare that ONC was working to “balance the right of patients to control their medical care and control access to their data with appropriate protections for privacy.”