The New England Journal of Medicine published Dr. David Blumenthal’s perspective on Health IT and the provisions of the HITECH Act on December 30th, 2009. Blumenthal is the head of the Office
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David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P. is the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for the Department of Health and Human Services, as chosen by the Obama Administration. He’s faced with the task of
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Director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, the health agency’s point man for electronic health records — a key technology and policy push of the Obama
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Outgoing Director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. David Blumenthal provided probably the final update on the cause for which he has championed for the past two
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National coordinator for health IT Dr. David Blumenthal, who announced last month he would return to academia, said successful efforts over the past two years to get healthcare providers on board with
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The adoption of health IT, such as electronic health records, stands at a turning point in 2011. A recent New York Times feature on the burgeoning technology and the policy and policymakers
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Director David Blumenthal took to the stage at one of the largest healthcare conferences to preach
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Electronic health records and other forms of health IT have survived the wrangling over defining “meaningful use.†But, until recently, EHR was often more about talk than action. Not so anymore, said
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National coordinator for health IT Dr. David Blumenthal announced last week he would leave his post in the spring. Now, the gloves are coming off  — so to speak — in terms
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Dr. David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health IT for the Department of Health and Human Services, announced in a staff memo late last week he would step down in the spring.
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