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Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, is the former national coordinator for health information technology at the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is " ...
. Currently Mostashari is CEO of Aledade, a company he founded in 2014. Aledade provides services to independent primary care providers forming
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s.


Life

He was born in
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, and raised in Iran, Mostashari moved to
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at age 14. Mostashari holds degrees from Yale University School of Medicine (MD, Medicine, 1996), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (MSc, Population Health, 1991), and Harvard University (AB, Biochemistry, 1989).


Career

Mostashari completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He subsequently joined the Centers for Disease Control's Epidemiological Intelligence Service, where he investigated outbreaks of infectious disease. He then joined the New York City Department of Health, where he launched the primary care information project under
Thomas Frieden Thomas R. Frieden (born December 7, 1960) is an American infectious disease and public health physician. He serves as president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a $225million, five-year initiative to prevent epidemics and cardiovascular disease ...
. The project focused on accelerating the adoption of electronic health record systems as a means of improving primary care quality in New York City. Following the passage of the HITECH act,
David Blumenthal David Blumenthal (born August 31, 1948) is an academic physician and health care policy expert, known as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from 2009 to 2011 during the early implementation of the Health Information Tec ...
recruited Mostashari to serve as deputy
national coordinator for health information technology The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is a staff division of the Office of the Secretary, within the Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ONC leads national health IT e ...
in July 2009 and eventually succeeded him as national coordinator on 8 April 2011. Mostashari is credited with leading the design and implementation of stage I meaningful use. In August 2013, he announced his resignation, and following his departure, became a visiting fellow at the
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's Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform. He used his time at Brookings to develop the ideas that he used to found Aledade.


See also

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Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is a staff division of the Office of the Secretary, within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ONC leads national health IT efforts, charged as the pri ...


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