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David Blumenthal was born on 31 August, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York, United States, is a Physician and health care policy expert. Discover David Blumenthal's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 31 August, 1948
Birthday 31 August
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York, United States
Nationality United States

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1948

David Blumenthal (born August 31, 1948) is an academic physician and health care policy expert, known as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from 2009 to 2011 during the early implementation of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act provisions on "meaningful use".

Blumenthal was born in Brooklyn, the son of Jane M. (née Rosenstock) and Martin A. Blumenthal, the president of a commodities trading firm.

His mother was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to a Jewish family that originated in Prussia and Baden, and his father was a Jewish immigrant from Frankfurt, Germany.

1970

Blumenthal received his B.A. from Harvard College (1970), his M.D. from Harvard Medical School (1975), and his M.P.P. from Harvard Kennedy School (1975).

David Blumenthal married Ellen Gravitz Blumenthal on August 9, 1970.

They have two children.

Blumenthal's older brother, Richard, is a United States senator from Connecticut.

1975

His internship and residency were at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1975 to 1980.

1977

Blumenthal was a professional staff member to the U.S. Senate Committee on Human Resources health and scientific research subcommittee in 1977 to 1979.

1980

Blumenthal was a lecturer of health policy at the Kennedy School of Government from 1980 to 1987.

He was an instructor, then professor, of medicine, social medicine and health policy, and of health care policy at the Harvard Medical School from 1980 and also a lecturer on health services, health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1983.

1987

Blumenthal was associate physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston (1987 to 1991) and then associate physician at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1991, physician from 1997.

During the U.S. presidential campaign in 1987-1988, Blumenthal was chief health advisor to the Dukakis campaign.

1991

He became chief of the Health Policy Research and Development Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1991 and director of the Institute for Health Policy for the Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare System in 1988.

2002

From 2002, he was national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine.

2008

Twenty years later, in 2008, he was senior health adviser to the Obama campaign.

2009

On March 20, 2009, President Obama appointed Blumenthal to be the National Health Information Technology Coordinator, just a month after the enactment of a federal stimulus package that included about $19 billion in incentives, by Medicare and Medicaid, for the adoption of electronic health records.

Blumenthal's charge was to set enabling policy for a nationwide health information system and to support widespread meaningful use of health information technology.

By many reports, he succeeded in putting in place one of the largest publicly funded infrastructure investments the US ever made in such a short time period, in any field.

2010

In 2010, he was named by Modern Healthcare as the most influential physician executive in the U.S. In February 2011, Blumenthal announced that he would leave the post of National Coordinator that spring; on April 8, Farzad Mostashari was announced as his successor.