David Brailer
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David Brailer is a public health official from the United States.
Brailer was appointed the first National Health Information Technology Coordinator on May 6, 2004. In this role, he executed the actions ordered by President George W. Bush in his Executive Order of April 27, 2004, which called for widespread deployment of health information technology within 10 years.
Prior to his appointment, Brailer was a Senior Fellow at the Health Technology Center in San Francisco, CA, a non-profit research and education organization offering information and resources to health care organizations about the future impact of technology in health care delivery.
For ten years, Brailer directed CareScience, Inc., a provider of care management services in order to reduce medical errors. Brailer led the company in establishing the nation's first health care Application Service Provider (ASP) and creating a care management business process outsourcing partnership. Brailer also designed and oversaw the development of one of the first community-based health information exchanges in Santa Barbara County, California.
Dr. Brailer holds doctoral degrees in both medicine and economics. While in medical school, he was a Charles A. Dana Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine and was the first recipient of the National Library of Medicine Martin Epstein Award for his work in expert systems. Dr. Brailer was among the first medical students to serve on the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association. He completed his medical residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and became board certified in internal medicine along the clinical investigator pathway. Dr. Brailer was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and, until recently, was active in patient care delivery with an emphasis on immune deficiency. He earned his M.D. degree at West Virginia University and his Ph.D. in managerial economics at The Wharton School.
Dr. Brailer resigned his position as National Coordinator in April, 2006. He has since become directore of CalPERS.
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- Chan, Gilbert (2007). "CalPERS out to tame health fees." Sacramento Bee. June 5.
- Mullaney, Timothy (2005). "This Man Wants to Save Health Care." BusinessWeek. October 31.
