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Dr. Javitt is a physician with a background in information technology, health economics, and public health, who serves as a Senior Fellow of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, in addition to serving as Chairman and CEO of Health Directions, LLC, an investment and consulting group that focuses on healthcare information technology and biotechnology. Dr. Javitt has been a founder of health information technology companies that have become part of Siemens, Inc., United Health Group, Inc., and Aetna, Inc. Currently, he serves as Managing Director for Health Care and Life Sciences of BTI, Inc. and is a Director of Flexscan, Inc. (Nasdaq: FXSC). Dr. Javitt continues to serve as a Professor of Ophthalmology (adj.) at the Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Javitt was appointed by President Bush on May 8, 2003 to the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), where he chaired the Health Subcommittee. Their report, Revolutionizing Health Care through Information Technology has served as a blueprint for concerted Executive and Legislative Branch focus on computerizing the nation's healthcare infrastructure. Dr. Javitt was subsequently appointed as an at-large delegate to the 2006 White House Conference on Aging.
Dr. Javitt joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins in 1988 as the first ophthalmologist to be granted a Physician Scientist Award by the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health. He joined the faculty of Georgetown University in 1990, where he directed and participated in more than $20 million of federally-funded research focused on outcomes of, and delivery of, health care including diseases of the eye, diabetes, and breast cancer. He is the author of more than 200 publications related to health care delivery and holds two U.S. patents. He authored the first book on computers in medicine and has published more than 200 scientific works in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and numerous other peer-reviewed publications. | 