Dr. David Bluementhal, former director of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, has been named the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology at the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Blumenthal will lead the Obama Adminstration's health information technology initiative to modernize healthcare.
The initiative will serve and a key component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
A bill to create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America's middle class through measures that modernize the nation's infrastructure, enhance America's energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need, and for other purposes.
Dr. David Bluementhal also served as the founding chairman of AcademyHealth, the national organization of health services researchers, and was formerly a national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine. In the 1970s, he was a professional staff member on Sen. Edward Kennedy's (D-Mass.) Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research.
Health information technology is a critical part of the President’s strategy to reform our healthcare system and Dr. David Bluementhal is the first round pick. Will Bluementhal lead us through an IT Revolution that will bring on American recovery and equality?
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