HIT Professionals praise choice if Blumenthal for HIT National Coordinator

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The Healthcare Information Technology industry praises Blumenthal as next Health IT Chief

http://www.ihealthbeat.org/Articles/2009/3/23/Industry-Praises-Pick-of-Blumenthal-as-Next-Health-IT-Chief.aspx

David Blumenthal M.D., President Obama's pick for National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is director of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), a practicing physician and also serves as a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

"He was involved in the Obama campaign, and all of us knew he was one of the individuals advising the president-elect on technology issues," said Steven Lieber in an a March 23rd interview with Health Data Management.

http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/Blumenthal_ONC-27906-1.html

Lieber, HIMSS CEO says Blumenthal apparently had "considerable influence" on the crafting of the health care I.T. provisions in the economic stimulus package.

Blumenthal published a paper in January that outlined his support of many of the same I.T. principles found in the stimulus package.

Read the paper at:

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Perspectives-on-Health-Reform-Briefs/2009/Jan/The-Federal-Role-in-Promoting-Health-Information-Technology.aspx

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