IBM Chief Health Informatics Officer Dr. Anil Jain appointed to Health IT Advisory Committee

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., appointed IBM Vice President and Chief Health Informatics Officer Anil K. Jain, MD, to a federal committee to advise the Trump administration on health IT issues.

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The 25-member Health IT Advisory Committee was created under the 21st Century Cures Act, which former President Barack Obama signed into law in December 2016. The committee of experts — appointed by Congressional leaders, the HHS secretary and the comptroller general of the Government Accountability Office — will provide policy recommendations to the ONC.

Dr. Jain, a practicing physician, biomedical engineer and computer scientist, will join other healthcare stakeholders like Steve Ready, CIO of Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare; Steven Lane, MD, clinical informatics director of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health; and biotech entrepreneur and surgeon Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, on the committee.

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