Meet Don Rucker MD – The New NCHIT for the US-HHS

Posted on July 12, 2017 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

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We are pleased to announce that Don Rucker has been named the new National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Dr. Rucker, a physician leader with national clinical informatics success, has a strong scientific, computational and practical background in medical computing and decision sciences, he was a co-developer of the first Microsoft Windows based electronic medical record in the world.

Additionally, Dr. Rucker was a designer of the computerized physician order entry [CPOE] module that won the 2003 HIMSS Nicholas Davies Award as the best hospital computer system in the US.

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NCHIT’s Bob Kolodner to Retire

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

National Co-ordinator of Heath IT Exits

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According to Government Health IT [HIMSS publication] and Paul McCloskey, Dr. Robert Kolodner, National Coordinator of Heath IT [NCHIT], said he would retire from federal service after a 30-year career during which he led the effort to build a working foundation for national health information sharing.

Enter David Blumenthal, MD

Kolodner will retire once his successor, Dr. David Blumenthal, was ready to take over the office. He will explore a range of opportunities for working in health IT after leaving government.

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Link: http://govhealthit.com/articles/2009/04/06/kolodner-to-retire-from-federal-government.aspx?s=GHIT_070409

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Health Reform, the Stimulus and Hitler’s Aktion T-4

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Overhauling the American Healthcare Industry

By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™

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According to the Washington Times on February 11, 2009, a secreted House version of the new economic stimulus bill that President Barack Obama is trying to rush through Congress, may contain the germ of a major overhaul of the American health care system befitting German State of yester-year?

National Coordinator of Health Information Technology

For example, one provision causing much concern is the future role of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology [NCHIT]. This is the organization that will be in charge of collecting and monitoring the health care being provided to every American. We have already commented, written, posted and warned our readers and subscribers about this item in our ME-P.

Link: https://healthcarefinancials.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/illuminating-the-congressional-federal-health-board

Hitler and Aktion T-4

The notion seems fully in the spirit of the partisans of efficiency, but historically may have originated from a program instituted in Hitler’s Germany – called Aktion T-4; as insinuated in the Time’s article. Under this program, elderly people with incurable diseases, young children who were critically disabled and others who were deemed non-productive, were euthanized. This was the Nazi version of efficiency, a pitiless expulsion of the “unproductive” members of society in the most expeditious way possible.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-4_Euthanasia_Program

Assessment

According to blogging tipster Matt Holt, and most right-minded folks, the Washington Times should be very careful before it starts comparing the people who support an improved national health care IT infrastructure to Hitler, and suggesting that they advocate mass slaughter of sick people.

Link: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/11/health-efficiency-can-be-deadly

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