Deloitte November 5, 2018
Maybe it’s because I spent my early career as a “cowboy surgeon” in Colorado, but I’ve always been a bit of a maverick when it comes to using technology to improve health care delivery and outcomes. I was chief of surgery at the Veterans Administration when I founded and chaired the Health IT Innovation Development program under the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop radical, interoperable information systems in the federal health care space─ an idea a bit out of the mainstream at the time. Today, in my role as Deloitte’s chief medical interoperability officer (CMIO), I am engaging across the government and public health sectors to help improve health care quality and safety by advancing....