David Blumenthal news and information

When Dr. David Blumenthal was appointed in 2009 to coordinate national efforts to promote electronic health records, his wife thought it was "a huge failure of vetting," he told an audience at an event at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare in Boston.
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Dr. Sachin Jain will leave his health information technology advisory position at HHS to return to clinical work at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston.
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Dr. David Blumenthal, the former head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS, has been named chairman of the Commonwealth Fund's 17-member
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Engaging patients through new technologies and expanding public-private collaborations are among the recommendations in a new report from...
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Federal officials and healthcare providers are torn between a push to adopt information technology as quickly and broadly as possible and the rival demands of securing their patients' private electronic data.
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Two new audit reports question HHS' commitment to digital security in health information technology.
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Looking for some prominent physician leaders? Chances are they work in Washington. Physicians employed by the federal government or public health advisory organizations dominate the latest list of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare.
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The ranked roster of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare for 2011.
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The new head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology pledged to continue to run an open and transparent office, but Dr. Farzad Mostashari said he would "double down" on efforts to improve communications, be more consumer-centric and to tailor the office's efforts...
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Editor's note: Dr. David Blumenthal stepped down last week as head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS to return to academia. His replacement, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, started April 8. Blumenthal reflected on the job in an interview last week with...
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