"There's all kinds of jobs in health care, information technology, in some regions, manufacturing or transportation logistics," Ms. Bragg said.
When he does his job right, he said, "we can create a common vision for health care information technology".
Mr. Mastrandrea, 34, is a revenue-cycle specialist in Nashville for Bluetree Network, a health care information technology company.
Although demand for information about the effectiveness and efficiency of health care information technology grows, large-scale resource-intensive randomized controlled trials of health care information technology remain impractical.
In Atlanta on Wednesday, Nate Cohen, 35, a health care information technology worker, was among the African-Americans unimpressed by Mr. Trump's efforts.
Eclipsys, Boca Raton, Fla., a provider of health care information technology, said its chief executive, Paul L. Ruflin, had left the company.
He lives in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, with his wife, Simone, a fellow-Trinidadian, whom he met at Carnival and who previously worked in health-care information technology.
In 2009, President Obama signed the HITECH act, creating a $27 billion stimulus package to accelerate health-care information technology in the United States.
McKesson HBOC Inc., a drug distribution and health-care information technology company, said yesterday that it would post a restructuring charge and cut jobs as it named John Hammergren president and chief executive, effective April 1.
