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Todd Park Appointed Second U.S. CTO

Posted by Soulskill on from the guys-named-todd dept.

redletterdave writes "On Friday, President Barack Obama appointed Todd Park, a 39-year-old former entrepreneur and data scientist, to be the new Chief Technology Officer of the United States. Park takes over for Aneesh Chopra, the first U.S. CTO, who resigned earlier this year. Park was formerly the CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services since 2009, where he helped bring 'big data' to healthcare by helping create an open health care data platform similar to the National Weather Service, which could feed data to commercial websites and applications. Before joining the Obama administration, Park helped co-found AthenaHealth and Castlight Health, and also served as a senior adviser to Ashoka, a global incubator for social entrepreneurs. One of his ventures, Healthpoint Services, won the 2011 Sankalp Award for the 'most innovative and promising health-oriented social enterprise in India.'"

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  1. CTO? by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it bad of me that I didn't know the country HAD a CTO? Do we have a CEO, COO, and chairman of the board too?

    I think we should work on a hostile take-over of Iraq... no wait, maybe we already did that.

    --
    "That's the way to do it" - Punch
    1. Re:CTO? by flaming+error · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I don't know about all those executive posts, but the country does have owners. You and I are not among them.

  2. Re:Corporate conversion... by nbauman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Only if you define the Heritage Foundation as "socialist."
    http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/apr/01/barack-obama/obama-says-heritage-foundation-source-health-excha/

    Or if you define "socialist" to mean "any government program that I don't like."

  3. Perfect Choice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is the deal with the health care guys? I mean honestly it is the worst industry for technology ever, well except for like actual medical procedures and stuff - but that's not what these guys did.

    I mean really? We couldn't find someone from IBM or Oracle or Apple or Microsoft .. hell, I'll take a guy from Netscape at this point .. who at least has a sense of how things *should* work? Next time you wonder why it takes your doctor 3 months to bill you remember that the CTO of the United States of F'ing America is a guy who was considered a genius in that industry.

    flame away on my company names, they were just examples of the hundreds of companies that actually use real technology to actually, you know, DO THINGS.