The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology named Charles Friedman, an expert in heath care research informatics, as deputy national coordinator for health IT. Friedman was senior adviser to the national coordinator, Robert Kolodner.
ONCHIT described the deputy's job as operations officer for the office's far-reaching health IT initiatives.
Friedman was associate director for research informatics and IT at the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. He was also a senior scholar at the National Library of Medicine, which he joined in 2003.
Friedman's 26-year academic career has been focused on how to evaluate the impact of information technology on health care and education. He was professor and associate vice chancellor for biomedical informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, where he set up the Center for Biomedical Informatics.
From the battlefield to the home front: Managing medical data
Government Health IT presents Col. Claude Hines Jr., program manager for the Defense Health Information Management System, in this recent InSight eSeminar. Col. Hines discusses the health information technology and tactical challenges faced by the military medical community in Iraq, Afghanistan and other areas of conflict. In doing so, he describes the current information technology solutions for transferring clinical data between battlefield care givers to health care personnel at military treatment facilities worldwide.
