Effective June 1, 2010, members of the staff of the Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL) at Partners HealthCare joined Westat, an employee-owned corporation providing research services to agencies of the U.S. Government, as well as businesses, foundations, and state and local governments. To learn more about Westat, please visit: www.westat.com. CITL members are joining Westat’s new Center for Health Information Technology, and will continue to perform research and evaluation studies examining the impact of information technology on healthcare.

Dr. Blackford Middleton, CITL’s Chairman, remains at Partners HealthCare and Harvard Medical School, and will work closely with Westat on health information technology research.

If you would like to reach an author of any of CITL's publications, please contact Ellen Rosenblatt, Manager of Operations at Partners HealthCare, at erosenblatt@partners.org. She will be happy to provide you with contact information. If you would like to access publicly available CITL reports, an archive is maintained at www.partners.org/cird.