Center Project Director David Merritt Speaks at Princeton on the Growing Need for Health IT
April 02, 2008
Center Project Director David Merritt Speaks at Princeton on the Growing Need for Health IT
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich, CHT Project Director David Merritt, and Senator Bill Frist
David Merritt, Center Project Director for Health IT Initiatives, spoke to a Princeton undergraduate course on the growing need for health information technology in our current system. The course, which focuses on U.S. health policy and politics, is regularly taught by Princeton alumni and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist.
Senator Frist, a physician from Tennessee, read Merritt’s award winning publication Paper Kills: Transforming Health and healthcare with Information Technology and asked that it be used as a formal textbook for his global economics course.
Serving as guest lecturer, Merritt focused on consumer and physician technology and provided the students with an overview of the benefits, barriers and solutions to achieving a fully-connected healthcare system.
After the event, Senator Frist, David Merritt, and Center for Health Transformation Founder former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich met to discuss healthcare issues in the upcoming election and beyond.
