Vish Sankaran was appointed Director of the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program in the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in March 2007. As FHA director, he has driven collaboration of interopable health IT in order to allow for the secure exchange of health information with the federal government, and with state, tribal and local governments and the private sector. In February, 2009 , Mr Sankaran was named as one of the Federal 100 by the editors of Federal Computer Week