Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM
Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy
Note: see update–Mostashari named National Coordinator on April 8, 2011.
Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM
“Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM serves as Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“Previously, he served at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as Assistant Commissioner for the Primary Care Information Project, where he facilitated the adoption of prevention-oriented health information technology by over 1,500 providers in underserved communities. Dr. Mostashari also led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded NYC Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics and an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded project focused on quality measurement at the point of care. Prior to this he established the Bureau of Epidemiology Services at the NYC Department of Health, charged with providing epidemiologic and statistical expertise and data for decision making to the health department.
“He did his graduate training at the Harvard School of Public Health and Yale Medical School, internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and completed the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service. He was one of the lead investigators in the outbreaks of West Nile Virus and anthrax in New York City, and among the first developers of real-time electronic disease surveillance systems nationwide.”
ONC posted above bio on May 11, 2010.
Related NY Times article, Feb 28, 2009: “How to Make Electronic Medical Records a Reality”
Two articles co-authored by Mostashari in Health Affairs March/April 2009 edition on Electronic Health Records and HITECH:
“A Tale Of Two Large Community Electronic Health Record Extension Projects”
“Collecting And Sharing Data For Population Health: A New Paradigm”
Only abstracts may be available from Health Affairs without registration and payment.
