Dean Kettl and Professor Meyer began writing for the IBM Center for The Business of Government in April 2010 on our blog, "Making Health Care Reform Work." The team, along with Stephen Majors, have written well over 200 posts on this blog and have recently produced short implementation

The Implementation Brief series is based on two key premises:

This week, Jeopardy! received the highest ratings since 2006 for the three day series of Jeopardy!  The IBM Challenge.  In a three day championship tournament, IBM’s Watson computer played against Ken Jennings, the contestant with the longest winning streak and Brad Rutter, the contestant who has won the most money in Jeopardy! history. 

Ivan Handler is the Chief Information Officer of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, where he started in 2005.

Daniel B. Prieto has worked for two decades in the private sector, government, and academia at the intersection of technology, public policy, and national and homeland security issues.  He is Vice President and lead for IBM's Public Sector Strategy & Innovation consulting practice.  He also leads corporate development and thought leadership campaigns in the areas of "smarter government", cybersecurity, homeland security, and healthcare for IBM’s U.S. Public Sector division.

Charles Prow is the IBM general manager responsible for the Global Business Services’ (GBS) Public Sector business, which includes federal government, state and local government, and healthcare.  IBM provides a broad portfolio of services to the Public Sector to include:  transformational and strategic consulting; business and operational improvement of supply chain, financial systems, call centers, analytic and optimization solutions and human capital needs; systems integration, hosting, application management, and engine

David M. Bowen is the Assistant Administrator for Information Services and Chief Information Officer for the FAA.

The health IT improvements spurred by the stimulus package's HITECH Act will almost undoubtedly bring some great health gains to the country. But appropriately enough in the field of health care, many dramatic treatments hurt more than the actual ailment -- at least for a little while.

Arthur Davidson, director of Public Health Informatics at the Denver Public Health Department, sits on the Meaningful Use Working Group—a team of health IT experts who are helping the federal Health IT Policy Committee define the goals and uses of electronic health records (EHR), with which health providers will have to comply to receive incentive payments from the Recovery Act.