The early Obama administration and HIT

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Life as a Healthcare CIO (blog), November 11, 2008

In his blog, Harvard Medical School Chief Information Officer and Dean for Technology John Halamka offers predictions about what the first year of Barack Obama's presidency will hold for health information technology. One of Halamka's hopes is that the Obama team will offer incentives to implement EHRs early in the administration.

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