HealthIT Answers March 16, 2025
By Dr. Jay Anders, Chief Medical Officer, Medicomp Systems
On this episode I welcome Leigh Burchell, vice president of policy and public affairs at Altera Digital Health and current chair of the Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA).
Burchell took an unusual path to health IT. Graduating with a major in constitutional history, she worked in healthcare marketing early in her career, but her passion for government and policy soon led her to involvement in policymaking during the Meaningful Use era of electronic medical records.
Since then, Burchell has been at the center of healthcare IT policy, including membership in the EHRA and active in HIMSS, the eHealth Initiative, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. She was also a winner of...