1. Todd Park served as Chief Technology Officer of the United States and technology advisor for US President Barack Obama.
11 Facts About Todd Park
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Todd Park is the co-founder and executive chairman of Devoted Health.
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Todd Park attended Harvard as an economics major where he met his future wife, Amy, with whom he has two children.
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Todd Park served as a volunteer senior advisor to Ashoka, a global incubator of social entrepreneurs, where he helped start a venture called Healthpoint Services, which brings affordable clean water, drugs, diagnostics, and telehealth services to rural villages in India.
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In 2017, Todd Park founded Devoted Health, where he serves as co-founder and executive chairman.
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Todd Park expressed his ambition to create an open health data platform analogous to the National Weather Service, which feeds data to commercial weather sites and applications.
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Todd Park described his desire to create a "holy cow machine for healthcare" that shows waste.
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Todd Park was an advocate for applying open innovation and the Lean Startup approach to government initiatives.
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Todd Park ran his team inside of the massive government agency "like a Silicon Valley company," according to the Atlantic.
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At HHS, Todd Park launched the Community Health Data Initiative, a developer conference and showcase to encourage the development of innovative healthcare applications using open government data.
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In March 2012, President Obama appointed Todd Park to replace Aneesh Chopra as the United States Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President.