Most Powerful?
Modern Healthcare's annual "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare" list for 2008 has been published and includes healthcare IT vendors in the top three spots.
2) Eric Schmidt, Chairman/CEO of Google
3) Bill Gates
4) Hillary Clinton
5) Barack Obama
6) Ted Kennedy
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8) George W. Bush
9) John McCain
10) Newt Gingrich
These popularity/political contests are amusing. As a healthcare IT PR practitioner it’s good to see the vendors in the top spots, as it indirectly helps all our causes. Personally I think none of them deserve to be there. Revolution, Google and Microsoft’s consumer health efforts are so early stage with virtually no users that they really should be in the low ‘teens.
No one seems to like Bush, but you can bet that doctors have privately thanked and rooted for him in not cutting Medicare reimbursement rates. That would put Bush from #8 to #1 no question. And Newt’s quasi-political think tank which charges vendors $50,000+ for representation is in many circles (as discussed by the Associated Press on occasion) a questionable operation. I could go on. But most people will agree that in our own real world, the most powerful person in healthcare is your or your child’s very own doctor.
Posted by Shawn Whalen on August 26, 2008 at 12:07 PM
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