BUSM Professor, BMC Physician Appointed to National Health Information Technology Policy Committee
Devin Mann, MD, MS, assistant professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and attending physician at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has been appointed to the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committee by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Mann, who was one of three new appointments, will serve as a researcher on the committee and will complete a full, three-year term through October 2016.
“In developing policy for health information technology, it’s important to take into account expertise related to privacy and security, health care research, as well as the views of health care workers who are the users of HIT,” said Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States and head of the GAO. “A number of individuals with backgrounds in these areas responded to GAO’s request for nominations, and I am pleased to announce the addition of today’s new appointments.”
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 established the HIT Policy Committee and gave the Comptroller General responsibility for appointing 13 of its 20 members. The HIT Policy Committee makes recommendations to the National Coordinator for Health IT on the development and adoption of a nationwide health information infrastructure, including standards for the exchange of patient medical information.
“I am honored to have been selected to serve on this prestigious committee and I look forward to representing BUSM and BMC over the next three years,” said Mann.
To this role, Mann brings years of experience in healthcare IT. His research has focused on the use of health information technology in improving clinical care, such as developing decision support systems with electronic health records to support advanced medical home care. He serves as the lead physician in ambulatory implementation of the Epic system at BMC and co-leads Epic optimization at East Boston Neighborhood Health Center.
Mann has served as the HIT lead on the Evidence-Based Medicine Task Force of the Society of General Internal Medicine. He received his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine and his MS of Science in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research from Weill Cornell Medical College.
For more information visit the GAO Health Care Advisory Committees web page at http://www.gao.gov/about/hcac/.