The last place you would expect to find Hollywood-based TV producers is at a policy wonk-fest held at a Holiday Inn in Southwest Washington.
But then, reality is often stranger than fiction.
Producers from the TV show CSI Miami were at the day-long hearing of the Health and Human Service Department's health IT standards committee conducting research for a possible show on health data privacy, Judy Sparrow, a senior policy analyst at said at the start of the meeting.
I spent most of Thursday listening to a Webcast of the hearing. If the CSI folks lasted all day, they should get a honorary wonk medal for nothing else than hearing the word "implementation" used what it seemed like every five minutes.
I don't know if CSIwill ever produce a show on the hearing, but in the meantime, I ask for your casting suggestions.
Who should play:
- Dr. David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology
- Aneesh Chopra, federal chief technology officer
- Dr, John Halamka, the chief information officer of Harvard Medical School, famed for having an radio frequency identification chip planted under his skin in 2005 so he could test the technology.
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