HIMSS10 Blumenthal Keynote: “Wind is at our back”
Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare.com, reported from HIMSS10 convention on March 3, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia, National Coordinator for Health IT “David Blumenthal’s keynote speech this morning at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society convention in Atlanta was in part a personal introduction, and then in turn pep talk, recitation of recent federal achievements and preview of the work ahead.”

CMIO Conference News reported reported March 3, 2010 that Blumenthal spoke to a capacity crowd and said “You have been leaders and we want you to continue to be leaders and we will follow your lead,” and cited ONC’s accomplishments.

Mark McGraw reported on March 3, 2010 in an ADVANCE Perspective blog from HIMSS10 on Blumenthal’s listing of accomplishments of ONC in past ten months, and quoted Blumenthal who said “We spent the first year developing policy. Now we begin the process of implementation.”

Reporting from Atlanta, Paul McCloskey wrote on March 3, 2010 in Government HealthIT, “Dr. David Blumenthal introduced himself to the IT community yesterday in a talk in which he told the story of his first experiences using health IT and shared his convictions about its future,”  laying “out goals for a plan that has no precedent ‘in the history of healthcare.’”