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Todd Park is the Chief Technology Officer of the Department of Health and Human Services, appointed by [[President Barack Obama]] in 2009. He has been a leader in bringing the notion of "big data" to healthcare. He has expressed his ambition to create an open health data platform analogous to the National Weather Service, which feeds data to commercial weather sites and applications. <ref>[http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/06/unlocking-innovation-through-d.html Making community health information as useful as weather data], Alexander Howard, The O'Reilly Radar, June 2, 2010</ref> He has also described his desire to create a "holy cow machine for healthcare" that shows waste <ref> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G09JnD7vg0k Creating a Holy Cow Machine For Healthcare], O'Reilly Media Gov 2.0 Summit, September 8, 2010 </ref>.
Todd Park is the Chief Technology Officer of the United States<ref>[http://m.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/03/09/todd-park-named-new-us-chief-technology-officer Todd Park Named New Chief Technology Officer] White House Blog, March 9, 2012<ref>, replacing outgoing CTO [[Aneesh Chopra]].
Todd was formerly the CTO of the Department of Health and Human Services, appointed by [[President Barack Obama]] in 2009. At HHS, he has been a leader in bringing the notion of "big data" to healthcare. He has expressed his ambition to create an open health data platform analogous to the National Weather Service, which feeds data to commercial weather sites and applications. <ref>[http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/06/unlocking-innovation-through-d.html Making community health information as useful as weather data], Alexander Howard, The O'Reilly Radar, June 2, 2010</ref> He has also described his desire to create a "holy cow machine for healthcare" that shows waste <ref> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G09JnD7vg0k Creating a Holy Cow Machine For Healthcare], O'Reilly Media Gov 2.0 Summit, September 8, 2010 </ref>.


At HHS, he has been a champion of applying [[open innovation]] and the “[[lean startup]]” approach to government initiatives. <ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/innovation-its-a-question-of-leadership/2011/08/16/gIQA3rFGKJ_story.html Innovation: It's a question of leadership]</ref> Under Park, HHS has applied open innovation -- sometimes called [[crowdsourcing]] -- to leverage the distributed intelligence of people outside of government. According to the New York Times, Park believes that releasing health data through HealthData.gov will support the agency's public health goals and catalyze new business opportunities in [[mhealth]] and [[eHealth]]. <ref>[http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/from-the-white-house-incentives-to-innovate/ Innovation for the People, by the People]</ref>
At HHS, he has been a champion of applying [[open innovation]] and the “[[lean startup]]” approach to government initiatives. <ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/innovation-its-a-question-of-leadership/2011/08/16/gIQA3rFGKJ_story.html Innovation: It's a question of leadership]</ref> Under Park, HHS has applied open innovation -- sometimes called [[crowdsourcing]] -- to leverage the distributed intelligence of people outside of government. According to the New York Times, Park believes that releasing health data through HealthData.gov will support the agency's public health goals and catalyze new business opportunities in [[mhealth]] and [[eHealth]]. <ref>[http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/from-the-white-house-incentives-to-innovate/ Innovation for the People, by the People]</ref>

Revision as of 19:09, 9 March 2012

Todd Park is the Chief Technology Officer of the United StatesCite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). He has also described his desire to create a "holy cow machine for healthcare" that shows waste [1].

At HHS, he has been a champion of applying open innovation and the “lean startup” approach to government initiatives. [2] Under Park, HHS has applied open innovation -- sometimes called crowdsourcing -- to leverage the distributed intelligence of people outside of government. According to the New York Times, Park believes that releasing health data through HealthData.gov will support the agency's public health goals and catalyze new business opportunities in mhealth and eHealth. [3]

Park has been running his part of the massive government agency "like a Silicon Valley company," according to the Atlantic. [4] That approach was particularly relevant in the development of HealthCare.gov, the first government website that provides consumers with a searchable database of public and private health insurance plans available across the U.S. by zip code. [5]

The initial version of HealthCare.gov, which was deployed on July 1, 2010, was built in 90 days. [6] HealthCare.gov was cited by the Kaiser Family Foundation as one of the early highlights in the implementation of the healthcare reform implementation progress. [7]

Prior to joining HHS, he was the co-founder of two successful health information technology companies, Athenahealth and Castlight Health. In one interview, he noted that his goal at Athenahealth was "Healthcare IT, not technology sitting there naked and expensive and not very effective and efficient at actually helping, but technology utilized to help re-architect the business and care processes in healthcare to make it more efficient and effective and to help consumer-directed healthcare and pay-for-performance move along more expeditiously." [8]

Park also served a volunteer senior advisor to Ashoka, a global incubator of social entrepreneurs, where he helped start a venture called Healthpoint Services, which brings affordable clean water, drugs, diagnostics, and telehealth services to rural villages in India. In 2011, Healthpoint Services won the Sankalp Award for the “most innovative and promising health-oriented social enterprise in India. [9]

He was born in 1973 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Korean immigrant parents. His father was a chemical engineer, who reportedly had "more patents than anybody in Dow Chemical’s history except for Dr. Dow himself."[10] Todd graduated from Harvard with a degree in economics.

He is married, with two children.

References

  1. ^ Creating a Holy Cow Machine For Healthcare, O'Reilly Media Gov 2.0 Summit, September 8, 2010
  2. ^ Innovation: It's a question of leadership
  3. ^ Innovation for the People, by the People
  4. ^ Can Todd Park Revolutionize the Health Care Industry?
  5. ^ The Social Return on Data
  6. ^ Behind Healthcare.gov: How Washington Is Drawing Inspiration From Silicon Valley, Twitter
  7. ^ Health reform's six-month checkup
  8. ^ HISTalk Interviews Athenaheath co-founder Todd Park
  9. ^ Healthpoint Services wins prestigious Sankalp Award
  10. ^ HISTalk Interviews Athenaheath co-founder Todd Park


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