Just over two weeks after she officially began her duties as the new National Coordinator for Health IT, Karen DeSalvo, M.D. sat down for a phone interview with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland, to discuss the meaningful use process—and much, much more.
On January 13, Karen DeSalvo, M.D., formerly City of New Orleans Health Commissioner and Senior Health Policy Advisor to Mayor Mitch Landrieu, joined the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) as the National Coordinator for Health IT, in the most important public policy role in healthcare IT in the United States. Now that she is in the National Coordinator position, how does the landscape look to her? Dr. DeSalvo sat down on Feb.
