OPM Observations on this week’s Executive Order

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has posted its observations on implementing the President’s recent Executive Order about health care quality and pricing tranparency and health information technology interoperability. Also available online are the President’s remarks on the Executive Order also are online and the transcript of a “press gaggle” aboard Air Force One during which HHS Secretary Leavitt describes the Executive Order as “a significant step toward an interoperable system of value-based competition.”