The Bipartisan Policy Center's (BPC) Health Project held

A Dialogue On Health Information Technology

Featuring Special Guest

Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Moderated By

Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD)
Co-Leader, BPC Health Project

Senator Bob Bennett (R-UT)
BPC Senior Fellow

With Opening Remarks by

Janet M. Marchibroda
Chair, Health IT Initiative
BPC Health Project

Under the leadership of former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Bill Frist and former Governors Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Ted Strickland (D-OH), the BPC's Health Project is dedicated to bringing together policymakers and industry stakeholders for substantive collaboration to create a more sustainable, accountable and efficient health care system. The Health Project will focus on four major areas, including health information technology (IT), which is a key structural component of the future success of delivery system, payment and insurance reforms. The Health IT Initiative will help health care leaders-particularly those operating at the state level-effectively align efforts and leverage health IT to support their goals around resolving complex health system problems.

Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM assumed the role of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on April 8, 2011. ONC is the principal federal entity charged with coordination of nationwide efforts to implement and use health IT and the electronic exchange of health information.

Health Project