David Merritt
Executive Vice President
Policy and Communications
Policy and Communications
Articles, Press Releases, Op-Eds
CHT Applauds Members Named to Modern Healthcare's Most Influential List
8/26/2011
Center for Health Transformation to Conduct Pre-Con at CDHC Solutions Forum
3/14/2011
Blumenthal to Leave Obama's Health IT Office
3/10/2011
Obama's Offer on Health Care Gets Chilly State Reception
3/2/2011
Georgia legislators to face tough health-care decisions
1/6/2011
Planning Under Way for New State-based Insurance Marketplace
11/25/2010
Georgia Leaders Face Decisions on Health Law Changes
11/9/2010
Cost to Insure Surges Higher
10/30/2010
Cost to Insure Surges Higher - Law Mainly Focuses on Expansion
10/30/2010
Health-care Repeal an Uphill Battle for GOP
10/11/2010
Win Or Lose, Republicans to Target New Health-Care Law After November Elections
10/3/2010
Who Decides on Health-Care Value?
7/30/2010
Obama-care Hits Long-term Care
6/22/2010
America Can't Afford New Tax With Long-term Care
6/2/2010
HIMSS 2010: The Doctor (of Technology) Is In The House
3/4/2010
Paper Kills 2.0 Book by Center for Health Transformation Features Chapter by Misys Open Source Solutions
2/26/2010
Greenway Medical Technologies Featured in Health IT Innovators Book
2/24/2010
Greenway Medical Technologies Featured in Health IT Innovators Book
2/24/2010
Modern Technology Is Critical As We Aim to Improve Health Care
2/24/2010
Don Walton: Sound and Fury
12/21/2009
Costly Health Care Reform Harmful Rx for Innovation
10/5/2009
Reassembling Humpty Dumpty
9/17/2009
Hot Button
9/16/2009
GOP Chief Steele Speaks at Round Table
9/13/2009
Republicans, Democrats Rally Separately to Make Views on Health-Care Reform Known
9/12/2009
Will Obama's Health-Care Reform Pitch Resonate?
9/9/2009
You Have To Buy Their Defective Product
8/27/2009
This Isn't Reform, It's Robbery
8/23/2009
Obama's e-health agenda receives cash infusion
8/21/2009
Gingrich on 'Edge' About Health Care and Potential U.S. 'Catastrophe'
7/22/2009
Administration Facing Tough Sell To Doctors On Health IT
7/17/2009
James M. Gaudin: Public insurance option needed
6/24/2009
Government-run healthcare plan a bad idea
6/18/2009
A Mandate in the Making?
6/5/2009
Health plans abound for GOP
6/2/2009
Obama health plan takes shape
6/1/2009
Pay Now or Pay Later
5/29/2009
Institute for Interactive Patient Care Launched
5/20/2009
Dragging health records into the digital age
5/18/2009
Possibly a Good Starting Point But . . .
5/11/2009
Health care's solutions: A guide to fix the American system
5/10/2009
Stimulating better health
4/27/2009
Newt Gingrich & David Merritt discuss Electronic Health Records and the Stimulus Package with Business Week
4/23/2009
GOP Stumbling in Health Care Fight
4/20/2009
6th Annual World Healthcare Congress, Day Three, Part 2
4/17/2009
Who is Rick Scott trying to heal? The fallen hospital king is taking on Obama over health care and launching a bold new venture
4/9/2009
How to heal health care: Open up market solutions to expand choices, cut costs
3/21/2009
Critics complain Obama Health-reform plan puts rationing over quality, CHT Project Director David Merritt Comments (Colorado Independent)
3/12/2009
GOP Wary of Obama Healthcare Research Push, CHT Project Director David Merritt Comments
3/11/2009
CHT Member Allscripts Applauds Economic Stimulus Incentives Rewarding Physicians for Using Electronic Health Records, Project Director David Merritt Comments
3/2/2009
Morton Kondracke: Obama's health summit needed to get consensus on reforms, David Merritt Comments
3/2/2009
Obama Has Good Idea: a Bipartisan Health Summit, David Merritt and Newt Gingrich Comment (RealClearPolitics.com)
2/27/2009
$19B stimulus to boost health IT advancement, Project Director David Merritt Comments (EE Times Asia)
2/24/2009
Health care reform gets a shot in the arm
2/22/2009
Health care reform gets a shot in the arm, Project Director David Merritt Comments (Buffalo News)
2/22/2009
Are the HIT provisions ?stimulative??
2/20/2009
Stimulating HIT, Allscripts Webcast with Project Director David Merritt Highlighted (Healthcare-Informatics.com)
2/20/2009
Stimulus Bill Gives $1.1 Billion for Comparative Effectiveness Research, Project Director David Merritt Comments
2/19/2009
Stimulus Bill Gives $1.1 Billion for Comparative Effectiveness Research, Project Director David Merritt Comments (natap.org)
2/19/2009
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich Highlights the Work of Jim Frogue and David Merritt
2/18/2009
CHT Member Allscripts Applauds Economic Stimulus Incentives Rewarding Physicians for Using Electronic Health Records, Project Director David Merritt Comments
2/17/2009
CHT Member Allscripts Applauds Economic Stimulus Incentives Rewarding Physicians for Using Electronic Health Records, Project Director David Merritt Comments (Tectrends.com)
2/17/2009
CHT Project Director David Merritt Weighs in on the Healthcare Spending Debate (SunJournal.com)
2/17/2009
Move to computerize medical records sparks debate, Project Director David Merritt Weighs In
2/14/2009
Project Director David Merritt Weighs in on the Healthcare Care Funds in the Stimulus Package (CharlotteObserver.com)
2/14/2009
'Special Report' Panel on Pounding Out a Stimulus Compromise (FoxNews.com)
2/13/2009
CHT Project Director David Merrit Weighs in on the Medical Records Debate
2/13/2009
Health IT Debate Continues, CHT Project Director David Merritt Comments
1/28/2009
CHT Project Director David Merritt Testifies on Health IT (Benton.org)
1/27/2009
CHT Project Director David Merritt To Testify Before Leahy Panel
1/27/2009
Groups Push for Health IT Privacy Safeguards, CHT Project Director David Merritt Advises
1/27/2009
Groups Push for Health IT Privacy Safeguards, CHT Project Director David Merritt Comments
1/27/2009
Senators seek more input on health IT language in stimulus bill, CHT Project Director David Merritt Comments
1/27/2009
New Approaches Touted for Health IT Policies, CHT Project Director David Merritt Highlighted
1/26/2009
House approves funding and expansion of SCHIP
1/15/2009
Prospect of Big Bucks for Health IT Draws Cheers From Many, Project Director David Merritt Comments
1/14/2009
Health IT Sector to Get Multibillion-Dollar Boost
1/12/2009
Health IT Sector to Get Multibillion-Dollar Boost, CHT Project Director David Merritt Comments
1/12/2009
Baseball Statistics Make a Play for Health Care, A Review of an Op-Ed Co-Written by CHT Founder Newt Gingrich
11/4/2008
MarketWatch.com Highlights CHT Project Director David Merritt as he Talks About a Statistics Based Approach to Healthcare
11/4/2008
CHT Project Director David Merritt Co-Authors, "Alabama Voices, Cutting Our System"
11/3/2008
Finance Employer Health Coverage Transparency Draft Stirs Concern
10/31/2008
CHT Project Director David Merritt Explores Modernizing Health Care With President Obama or President McCain
10/3/2008
Modernizing Healthcare with President Obama or President McCain
9/29/2008
CCHIT names new commissioners, set to launch HIE program; CHT's David Merritt Included
9/22/2008
Certification commission names new commissioners, launches HIE program; CHT's David Merritt Included
9/22/2008
"Google, Microsoft pushing for electronic health records" - DentonRC.com
6/17/2008
"Google, Microsoft pushing for electronic medical records" - Calibre
6/17/2008
"Google, Microsoft pushing for electronic medical records" - DallasNews.com
6/17/2008
"Google, Microsoft pushing for electronic medical records" - Quickdfw.com
6/17/2008
"Health Care Reform Waits" - The Washington Independent
5/9/2008
"U.S. Internet, Health IT Prospects Improving" - iHealthBeat
5/1/2008
Center Project Director David Merritt Speaks at Princeton on the Growing Need for Health IT
4/2/2008
Hospitals slow to adopt e-records - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
3/23/2008
U.S. lags in digital medical records - Baltimore Sun
3/11/2008
Health Care Marketplace | Baltimore Sun Examines Physicians' Reluctance To Use EHRs - Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report
3/4/2008
'Going digital'going slowly - Baltimore Sun
3/2/2008
Premier Healthcare Alliance Experts Pen Chapter in Book Honored by HIMSS as 2007 Book of the Year - Business Wire
2/29/2008
Merritt Wins Book Award from HIMSS
2/25/2008
A Mandate in the Making? - Healthcare Informatics
2/22/2008
Opinion Piece Addresses OMB's 'Unwillingness To Embrace Change,' Recommends Overhaul - Medical News Today
1/30/2008
Stakeholders Hopeful That 2008 Is Year Of E-Prescribing - Inside CMS (subscription required)
1/24/2008
Health: Drug Agency Can't Confirm E-Prescription Timeline - National Journal
12/13/2007
Center for Health Transformation Participates in Panel Discussion about Michael Moore's "SiCKO"
11/14/2007
The Mountain Cure - Government Health IT
11/12/2007
Interview with Newt Gingrich, David Merritt and Brandon Savage on the new book "Paper Kills"
11/8/2007
One Cheer for Doctor Hillary: Right Problems, Wrong Solutions
10/15/2007
The Future of SCHIP
9/22/2007
HIT Activity in State Medicaid Programs
9/10/2007
Number of Uninsured Americans Rises
8/31/2007
12 States Lead the Way in HIT
8/21/2007
Health Bill Contains 'Hidden Tax Increase'
8/1/2007
Tackling costs of health care requires some huge changes
6/13/2007
CHT Press Releases Paper Kills
6/4/2007
An Opportunity to Transform Care Delivery at Military Medical Facilities
3/28/2007
Democrats Take Aim at Health Accounts
3/21/2007
Web-based prescriptions would reduce errors, death
3/11/2007
Rebuilding Healthcare the Right Way
2/26/2007
Health IT Remains a Bipartisan Issue
2/19/2007
Build Eisenhower's Highway System for Today's Needs
1/30/2007
Health IT and the 110th Congress
1/11/2007
HSAs Offer Viable Options
12/15/2006
A Remedy for Healthcare
12/5/2006
Renew Milton Friedman's Conservatism
12/4/2006
CHT Calls for Action on Health IT
11/16/2006
The Left Playing Medi-scare, Again
11/8/2006
Merritt Named to Misys Advisory Board
10/23/2006
Can Health IT Transform Our Antiquated Healthcare System?
8/31/2006
Merritt Named to HIT Council
8/30/2006
A Test of Will: Border Security and Healthcares
8/22/2006
The Last, Best Hope for Healthcare
7/31/2006
The 21st Century Intelligent Health System
5/1/2006
National Health IT Coordinator Resigns
4/21/2006
A Healthy Medicare Drug Plan
3/30/2006
Health IT Seal of Approval?
2/13/2006
Easy on the Healthcare
2/6/2006
Doctors Edge toward Electronic Records
1/17/2006
Our Ailing Health System - Is IT the Cure?
11/23/2005
A Booster Shot for Medical Data-Sharing
11/10/2005
The Budget Scoring Impediment
10/26/2005
Consumer-Driven Healthcare Gains Momentum
9/1/2005
Making Healthcare Smarter - Medical Bills Go Public
7/1/2005
Rx for America: A Healthy Dose of Information Technology
6/3/2005
8/26/2011
Center for Health Transformation to Conduct Pre-Con at CDHC Solutions Forum
3/14/2011
Blumenthal to Leave Obama's Health IT Office
3/10/2011
Obama's Offer on Health Care Gets Chilly State Reception
3/2/2011
Georgia legislators to face tough health-care decisions
1/6/2011
Planning Under Way for New State-based Insurance Marketplace
11/25/2010
Georgia Leaders Face Decisions on Health Law Changes
11/9/2010
Cost to Insure Surges Higher
10/30/2010
Cost to Insure Surges Higher - Law Mainly Focuses on Expansion
10/30/2010
Health-care Repeal an Uphill Battle for GOP
10/11/2010
Win Or Lose, Republicans to Target New Health-Care Law After November Elections
10/3/2010
Who Decides on Health-Care Value?
7/30/2010
Obama-care Hits Long-term Care
6/22/2010
America Can't Afford New Tax With Long-term Care
6/2/2010
HIMSS 2010: The Doctor (of Technology) Is In The House
3/4/2010
Paper Kills 2.0 Book by Center for Health Transformation Features Chapter by Misys Open Source Solutions
2/26/2010
Greenway Medical Technologies Featured in Health IT Innovators Book
2/24/2010
Greenway Medical Technologies Featured in Health IT Innovators Book
2/24/2010
Modern Technology Is Critical As We Aim to Improve Health Care
2/24/2010
Don Walton: Sound and Fury
12/21/2009
Costly Health Care Reform Harmful Rx for Innovation
10/5/2009
Reassembling Humpty Dumpty
9/17/2009
Hot Button
9/16/2009
GOP Chief Steele Speaks at Round Table
9/13/2009
Republicans, Democrats Rally Separately to Make Views on Health-Care Reform Known
9/12/2009
Will Obama's Health-Care Reform Pitch Resonate?
9/9/2009
You Have To Buy Their Defective Product
8/27/2009
This Isn't Reform, It's Robbery
8/23/2009
Obama's e-health agenda receives cash infusion
8/21/2009
Gingrich on 'Edge' About Health Care and Potential U.S. 'Catastrophe'
7/22/2009
Administration Facing Tough Sell To Doctors On Health IT
7/17/2009
James M. Gaudin: Public insurance option needed
6/24/2009
Government-run healthcare plan a bad idea
6/18/2009
A Mandate in the Making?
6/5/2009
Health plans abound for GOP
6/2/2009
Obama health plan takes shape
6/1/2009
Pay Now or Pay Later
5/29/2009
Institute for Interactive Patient Care Launched
5/20/2009
Dragging health records into the digital age
5/18/2009
Possibly a Good Starting Point But . . .
5/11/2009
Health care's solutions: A guide to fix the American system
5/10/2009
Stimulating better health
4/27/2009
Newt Gingrich & David Merritt discuss Electronic Health Records and the Stimulus Package with Business Week
4/23/2009
GOP Stumbling in Health Care Fight
4/20/2009
6th Annual World Healthcare Congress, Day Three, Part 2
4/17/2009
Who is Rick Scott trying to heal? The fallen hospital king is taking on Obama over health care and launching a bold new venture
4/9/2009
How to heal health care: Open up market solutions to expand choices, cut costs
3/21/2009
Critics complain Obama Health-reform plan puts rationing over quality, CHT Project Director David Merritt Comments (Colorado Independent)
3/12/2009
GOP Wary of Obama Healthcare Research Push, CHT Project Director David Merritt Comments
3/11/2009
CHT Member Allscripts Applauds Economic Stimulus Incentives Rewarding Physicians for Using Electronic Health Records, Project Director David Merritt Comments
3/2/2009
Morton Kondracke: Obama's health summit needed to get consensus on reforms, David Merritt Comments
3/2/2009
Obama Has Good Idea: a Bipartisan Health Summit, David Merritt and Newt Gingrich Comment (RealClearPolitics.com)
2/27/2009
$19B stimulus to boost health IT advancement, Project Director David Merritt Comments (EE Times Asia)
2/24/2009
Health care reform gets a shot in the arm
2/22/2009
Health care reform gets a shot in the arm, Project Director David Merritt Comments (Buffalo News)
2/22/2009
Are the HIT provisions ?stimulative??
2/20/2009
Stimulating HIT, Allscripts Webcast with Project Director David Merritt Highlighted (Healthcare-Informatics.com)
2/20/2009
Stimulus Bill Gives $1.1 Billion for Comparative Effectiveness Research, Project Director David Merritt Comments
2/19/2009
Stimulus Bill Gives $1.1 Billion for Comparative Effectiveness Research, Project Director David Merritt Comments (natap.org)
2/19/2009
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich Highlights the Work of Jim Frogue and David Merritt
2/18/2009
CHT Member Allscripts Applauds Economic Stimulus Incentives Rewarding Physicians for Using Electronic Health Records, Project Director David Merritt Comments
2/17/2009
CHT Member Allscripts Applauds Economic Stimulus Incentives Rewarding Physicians for Using Electronic Health Records, Project Director David Merritt Comments (Tectrends.com)
2/17/2009
CHT Project Director David Merritt Weighs in on the Healthcare Spending Debate (SunJournal.com)
2/17/2009
Move to computerize medical records sparks debate, Project Director David Merritt Weighs In
2/14/2009
Project Director David Merritt Weighs in on the Healthcare Care Funds in the Stimulus Package (CharlotteObserver.com)
2/14/2009
'Special Report' Panel on Pounding Out a Stimulus Compromise (FoxNews.com)
2/13/2009
CHT Project Director David Merrit Weighs in on the Medical Records Debate
2/13/2009
Health IT Debate Continues, CHT Project Director David Merritt Comments
1/28/2009
CHT Project Director David Merritt Testifies on Health IT (Benton.org)
1/27/2009
CHT Project Director David Merritt To Testify Before Leahy Panel
1/27/2009
Groups Push for Health IT Privacy Safeguards, CHT Project Director David Merritt Advises
1/27/2009
Groups Push for Health IT Privacy Safeguards, CHT Project Director David Merritt Comments
1/27/2009
Senators seek more input on health IT language in stimulus bill, CHT Project Director David Merritt Comments
1/27/2009
New Approaches Touted for Health IT Policies, CHT Project Director David Merritt Highlighted
1/26/2009
House approves funding and expansion of SCHIP
1/15/2009
Prospect of Big Bucks for Health IT Draws Cheers From Many, Project Director David Merritt Comments
1/14/2009
Health IT Sector to Get Multibillion-Dollar Boost
1/12/2009
Health IT Sector to Get Multibillion-Dollar Boost, CHT Project Director David Merritt Comments
1/12/2009
Baseball Statistics Make a Play for Health Care, A Review of an Op-Ed Co-Written by CHT Founder Newt Gingrich
11/4/2008
MarketWatch.com Highlights CHT Project Director David Merritt as he Talks About a Statistics Based Approach to Healthcare
11/4/2008
CHT Project Director David Merritt Co-Authors, "Alabama Voices, Cutting Our System"
11/3/2008
Finance Employer Health Coverage Transparency Draft Stirs Concern
10/31/2008
CHT Project Director David Merritt Explores Modernizing Health Care With President Obama or President McCain
10/3/2008
Modernizing Healthcare with President Obama or President McCain
9/29/2008
CCHIT names new commissioners, set to launch HIE program; CHT's David Merritt Included
9/22/2008
Certification commission names new commissioners, launches HIE program; CHT's David Merritt Included
9/22/2008
"Google, Microsoft pushing for electronic health records" - DentonRC.com
6/17/2008
"Google, Microsoft pushing for electronic medical records" - Calibre
6/17/2008
"Google, Microsoft pushing for electronic medical records" - DallasNews.com
6/17/2008
"Google, Microsoft pushing for electronic medical records" - Quickdfw.com
6/17/2008
"Health Care Reform Waits" - The Washington Independent
5/9/2008
"U.S. Internet, Health IT Prospects Improving" - iHealthBeat
5/1/2008
Center Project Director David Merritt Speaks at Princeton on the Growing Need for Health IT
4/2/2008
Hospitals slow to adopt e-records - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
3/23/2008
U.S. lags in digital medical records - Baltimore Sun
3/11/2008
Health Care Marketplace | Baltimore Sun Examines Physicians' Reluctance To Use EHRs - Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report
3/4/2008
'Going digital'going slowly - Baltimore Sun
3/2/2008
Premier Healthcare Alliance Experts Pen Chapter in Book Honored by HIMSS as 2007 Book of the Year - Business Wire
2/29/2008
Merritt Wins Book Award from HIMSS
2/25/2008
A Mandate in the Making? - Healthcare Informatics
2/22/2008
Opinion Piece Addresses OMB's 'Unwillingness To Embrace Change,' Recommends Overhaul - Medical News Today
1/30/2008
Stakeholders Hopeful That 2008 Is Year Of E-Prescribing - Inside CMS (subscription required)
1/24/2008
Health: Drug Agency Can't Confirm E-Prescription Timeline - National Journal
12/13/2007
Center for Health Transformation Participates in Panel Discussion about Michael Moore's "SiCKO"
11/14/2007
The Mountain Cure - Government Health IT
11/12/2007
Interview with Newt Gingrich, David Merritt and Brandon Savage on the new book "Paper Kills"
11/8/2007
One Cheer for Doctor Hillary: Right Problems, Wrong Solutions
10/15/2007
The Future of SCHIP
9/22/2007
HIT Activity in State Medicaid Programs
9/10/2007
Number of Uninsured Americans Rises
8/31/2007
12 States Lead the Way in HIT
8/21/2007
Health Bill Contains 'Hidden Tax Increase'
8/1/2007
Tackling costs of health care requires some huge changes
6/13/2007
CHT Press Releases Paper Kills
6/4/2007
An Opportunity to Transform Care Delivery at Military Medical Facilities
3/28/2007
Democrats Take Aim at Health Accounts
3/21/2007
Web-based prescriptions would reduce errors, death
3/11/2007
Rebuilding Healthcare the Right Way
2/26/2007
Health IT Remains a Bipartisan Issue
2/19/2007
Build Eisenhower's Highway System for Today's Needs
1/30/2007
Health IT and the 110th Congress
1/11/2007
HSAs Offer Viable Options
12/15/2006
A Remedy for Healthcare
12/5/2006
Renew Milton Friedman's Conservatism
12/4/2006
CHT Calls for Action on Health IT
11/16/2006
The Left Playing Medi-scare, Again
11/8/2006
Merritt Named to Misys Advisory Board
10/23/2006
Can Health IT Transform Our Antiquated Healthcare System?
8/31/2006
Merritt Named to HIT Council
8/30/2006
A Test of Will: Border Security and Healthcares
8/22/2006
The Last, Best Hope for Healthcare
7/31/2006
The 21st Century Intelligent Health System
5/1/2006
National Health IT Coordinator Resigns
4/21/2006
A Healthy Medicare Drug Plan
3/30/2006
Health IT Seal of Approval?
2/13/2006
Easy on the Healthcare
2/6/2006
Doctors Edge toward Electronic Records
1/17/2006
Our Ailing Health System - Is IT the Cure?
11/23/2005
A Booster Shot for Medical Data-Sharing
11/10/2005
The Budget Scoring Impediment
10/26/2005
Consumer-Driven Healthcare Gains Momentum
9/1/2005
Making Healthcare Smarter - Medical Bills Go Public
7/1/2005
Rx for America: A Healthy Dose of Information Technology
6/3/2005
