Former Obama Adviser Chosen As Commonwealth Fund President
The Commonwealth Fund, one of the nation’s largest health care philanthropies, Dr. David Blumenthal as its new president.
Between 2009 and February 2011, Blumenthal led President Barack Obama’s the use of electronic medical records and other health information technology. he returned to Harvard Medical School, where he has been a professor. He also has been chief health information and innovation officer at Partners Healthcare System in Boston. Blumenthal replaces Karen Davis, who had run the fund since 1995.
In the fund announcement, the nonprofit’s chairman, James Tallon Jr., said 鈥渨e are extremely fortunate to have Dr. Blumenthal take the helm of the Fund at a crucial time in the drive to achieve a high performance health system. If the U.S. is to realize the triple aims of better health, better care, and lower cost, it will need over the next 10 years unstinting efforts by health policy and practice leaders like Dr. Blumenthal. He is ideally suited to carry forward The Commonwealth Fund鈥檚 significant role in advancing delivery and payment system changes that will improve system performance.鈥
