Refer A Colleague Boston Physician Named Coordinator for Healthcare IT
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced the selection of David Blumenthal, MD, as the Obama Administration’s choice for national coordinator for healthcare information technology (IT).
As the national coordinator, Dr. Blumenthal will lead the implementation of a nationwide interoperable, privacy-protected healthcare IT infrastructure as called for in the economic stimulus package.
Blumenthal most recently served as a physician and director of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System in Boston, MA. He was also a professor of medicine and professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School.
The economic stimulus package includes a $19.5 billion investment in healthcare IT. Blumenthal will lead the effort at HHS to modernize the healthcare system by catalyzing the adoption of interoperable healthcare IT by 2014 thereby reducing health costs for the federal government by an estimated $12 billion over 10 years, according to a press release from HHS.
For more information about the selection, visit www.hhs.gov