Top 25 Women in Healthcare - 2005

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), a member of the Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, has turned her attention in recent years to quality improvements needed in the U.S. healthcare system, lauding the ability of healthcare information technology to achieve those goals. Clinton, 57, has called for improved research on quality of care, rewards for performance, and a national, interoperable IT infrastructure.