Bethesda based IT consulting service provider, Digital Management Inc. has retained former National Institutes of Health executive Timothy Hays to lead its new Health-care IT practice. Â With only about 8% of the nation’s hospitals and 17% of physicians utilizing computerized record-keeping systems, the company hopes to position itself to find opportunities to provide services required by the $23 billion allocated to this sector in President Obama’s February stimulus package. Â “It’s ironic that while the U.S. is often at the forefront of advances in medical science and technology, our health-care IT systems lag behind, ” said Jay Sunny Bajaj, the CEO of Digital Management, adding that Hays will “play a vital role bringing our health-care IT systems into the 21st century.” Â During his time with NIH, Hays was project director for the NIH Research, Condition and Disease Categorization (RCDC) Project. Â Read entire press release…
