Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for HIT for the Health and Human Services Department, responded to Thomas L. Friedman’s recent editorial in the NYT about the driving forces behind healthcare innovation. In his letter, he acknowledges recent milestones in the adoption of health IT, and reinforces what he sees as, “another example of how public policy is driving a smarter health care system focused on the quality of care, not the quantity of care delivered.”