Peter L. Levin is the co-founder and CEO of Amida Technology Solutions, an information technology firm that focuses on data interoperability, exchange, governance, and security.
He was previously Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Chief Technology Officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs, where he led their health record modernization initiative. In this role he co-created and led the inter-agency development of the Blue Button personal health record (now the most widely used PHR in the country), the creation and implementation of the Virtual Regional Office (the proof-of-concept of VA’s disability claims management system VBMS), and the first deployed components of the integrated electronic health record with DoD (now known as the Joint Legacy Viewer).
Peter was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator during the first Bush administration, a Clinton White House Fellow in the Office of Management and Budget, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in the Department Mathematical Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt, and a winner of an NIST Advanced Technology Program award. He is the co-author of more than 90 technical articles ranging from satellite navigation and cybersecurity to computer simulations and semiconductor test. He has published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, politico.com, The Hill, the Baltimore Sun, GCN, Quillette, and the White House website.
