David Blumenthal Biography

David Blumenthal M.D. M.P.P. is president of The Commonwealth Fund a national philanthropy engaged in independent research on health and social policy issues.
Dr. Blumenthal is formerly the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief Health Information and Innovation Officer at Partners Healthcare System in Boston. From 2009 to 2011 he served as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology with the charge to build an interoperable private and secure nationwide health information system and to support the widespread meaningful use of health IT. He succeeded in putting in place one of the largest publicly funded infrastructure investments the nation has ever made in such a short time period in health care or any other field.
Previously Dr. Blumenthal was a practicing primary care physician director of the Institute for Health Policy and professor of medicine and health policy at Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School. He is the author of more than 250 books and scholarly publications including most recently Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and serves on the editorial boards of the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation. He has also served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research; is the founding chairman of AcademyHealth the national organization of health services researchers; and a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

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