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Interview: John White, Director IT, AHRQ

Last week I got to spend some quality time in Washington DC including moderating a panel looking at new research behind physician-patient communication at the annual AHRQ conference. AHRQ will play a significant role in comparative effectiveness research, as it basically is channeling the $1 billion or so in the stimulus package for that. But AHRQ is also pretty active in trying to figure out what works and what doesn’t in health care IT, and has an online resource center about that too.

The man running AHRQ’s initiatives in IT is John White, who’s affable, amusing and has an interesting point of view or two. So to let you know a little more about the mysteries of government, here’s my interview with John.

Washington DC conference and party!

Wednesday morning I’ll be at the AHRQ annual conference in Rockville, Maryland. I’m moderating a panel looking at “Experiences in Patient-Centered Care: Improving Coordination and Communication among Patients and Providers”. Given this is an AHRQ meeting there’ll be actual research presented from:

    • Gail Brottman, Director of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis;
    • Jennifer Uhrig, Senior Health Communication Scientist at RTI;
    • Jim Tufano, Assistant Professor, University of Washington’s program in Biomedical & Health Informatics

Of course I’ll be dragging them down to my non-academic level pretty soon!

If you can’t join the academics in the morning, you may want to come by a drinks party hosted by my friend Maggi Cary in the evening. For that one you’ll have to email me to find out a few more details!