Todd Park, co-founder of Watertown, MA-based Athenahealth (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ATHN]]) and San Mateo, CA-based Maria Health, has been tapped to serve as chief technology officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Athenahealth announced. To satisfy government requirements, Park will resign this month from his post on the board of Athenahealth, a provider of Web-based tools used by medical practices to managing billing, electronic medical records (EMRs), and other functions.
Author: Rebecca Zacks
Rebecca is Xconomy's co-founder. She was previously the managing editor of Physician's First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine's TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.
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