Kimberly Leonard

Leonard is a multimedia and health IT reporter who has worked for Vogue magazine, Stateline.org and the Huffington Post Investigative Fund. She’s also done stints at In Style and Time magazines and at Teach for America. Leonard is a 2009 graduate of the University of Richmond.

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IOM: New agency, not FDA, needed to regulate health IT

By Kimberly Leonard 10:22 am November 08, 2011

A report from the Institute of Medicine says that the FDA is not up to the task of overseeing health IT regulations and, as such, would stifle market innovation.

Institute of Medicine report says FDA not fit to regulate HIT

By Kimberly Leonard 09:38 pm November 07, 2011

Health information technology has been touted as crucial to better healthcare, but a new report says an entirely new regulatory agency is needed to oversee this largely unregulated sector, which can also injure or kill patients if it's not operating properly.