ONC Needs a CIO

The resignation of David Blumenthal, MD, last week as national coordinator for heath IT provides an important opportunity to right a meaningful use (MU) ship out of control. As I wrote in The Most Powerful Person in Healthcare IT, I believe that ship is out of control because the crafting of MU has been taken over by passionate individuals more devoted to the special interests they represent than the practicability of requirements they’re putting into place. Read the rest of this column at Information Week …