Fixing Healthcare September 8, 2019
Welcome to a new season of the Fixing Healthcare podcast. As co-hosts Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr turn their attention to the politics of American healthcare, they were eager to greet the first guest of season three, David Blumenthal.
David is a healthcare policy expert and president of The Commonwealth Fund, a national philanthropy engaged in independent research on health and social policy issues. He’s a former primary care physician, director of the Institute for Health Policy, and professor of medicine and health policy at Harvard Medical School. Under the Obama administration, David served as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, in charge of building a nationwide health information system and supporting the “meaningful use” of health IT.
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