“According to an ethics agreement obtained by the Washington Post, Fitzgerald is required to avoid government business tied to cancer detection and health IT because of financial holdings in companies that pose a potential conflict of interest. Greenway Health, an EHR and revenue cycle management company, is one of the companies that Fitzgerald and her husband have invested in through two limited liability companies.”
“…Although her ethics agreement does not specifically mention PDMPs, Greenway Health has worked on initiatives involving electronic prescribing and PDMPs.”
Source: CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald recuses herself from health IT decisions because of financial conflicts – By Evan Sweeney, December 13, 2017, FierceHealthcare. Read the full article here.