Fierce Health Technology June 17, 2021
The role of national coordinator for health IT comes with its fair share of policy constraints and budget limitations, but partisanship is one of the few Capitol Hill hurdles the office has managed to avoid over the past decade and a half.
In a recent College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) panel convening current National Coordinator Micky Tripathi, M.D., with six of his predecessors, the health IT leaders swapped stories about the challenges that came with guiding health IT policy through major periods of change.
Rob Kolodner, M.D., who held the role for two and a half years at the tail end of the George W. Bush administration, looked back fondly on his group’s work to develop the first...