Topic: Health Datapalooza

Chief Technology Officer Todd Park is scrutinized for his role as a "change agent" at Health and Human Services and his founding of AthenaHealth. The hosts highlight a potential conflict of interest regarding AthenaHealth's sponsorship of the "Health Datapalooza" conference while Park serves in the government.

U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park hosted the third annual Health Datapalooza, an event promoting the use of "liberated" government health data for private app development. Park, a former Booz Allen Hamilton consultant, invited musician Jon Bon Jovi to speak about his "Soul Kitchen" initiative. Critics view the event as a front for securing government contracts and a distraction from systemic hospital errors.