Health Affairs on Obama HIT plans

We don’t know all the details yet, but a lot of people are excited about the fact that President-elect Barack Obama has made a point of including health IT in his forthcoming economic agenda. He did this as recently as Saturday.

Yesterday, in a Health Affairs blog post, Health Affairs Executive Publisher Jane Hiebert-White summarized Obama’s statements and other various reactions to his plans. She also indicated that the venerable policy journal will devote its March issue to health IT.

I’m reserving judgment until Obama not only fills in some of the details, but also chooses the new heads of CMS and the Veterans Health Administration.