New Deputy Director at HHS

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is getting a new deputy director. His name is Craig Brammer, and he's (now) the former project director of Aligning Forces for Quality in Cincinnati.

That project is part of a program founded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to provide residents in communities with medical information so they can make health care choices based on quality, with the aim to eliminate disparities in health outcomes among ethnic groups.

Brammer was named the new deputy director for the Beacon Community program, which operates out of the national coordinator's office, part of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department. The Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program, according to a landing page on the HHS Web site, funds information technology projects in communities to demonstrate how medical data can be exchanged among hospitals, doctors and patients to demonstrate it can improve health.

Hat tip: The Cincinnati Business Courier.