David blumenthal step down

Dr. David Blumenthal has stepped down from his position as National Coordinator for the Health Information Technology.
David Blumenthal to Step Down - Dr. David Blumenthal, the national health IT coordinator, will step down in the spring from his position leading the federal program to drive adoption of electronic health records by the nation’s physicians and hospital.

Blumenthal told his staff in a memo Feb. 3 that he will return to Harvard University, where he was a researcher before President Obama named him to head the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in March 2009.

Blumenthal had planned to stay two years when he accepted the position with ONC, he said in the memo.