Filippi to Run Data Exchange?

I've picked up low to medium strength signals that Debra Filippi, the Defense Department's information sharing executive, has emerged as a likely candidate to run the joint interagency program office in charge of sharing information -- including electronic health information -- between the Defense and the Veterans Affairs Department.

Rear Adm. Gregory Timberlake, a physician who headed the program office on an interim basis this year after being recalled to active duty, plans to return home to Mississippi next week, where he is a professor of surgery, physiology and biophysics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Miss..

Defense and VA have been looking for a permanent director for months, and Filippi sure looks like a logical choice, as data sharing is already her game.

More shall be revealed.