Internist and Vice President, Chief Medical Information Officer

Paul Tang, MD, MS Internist and Vice President, Chief Medical Information Officer Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Sutter Health, Mountain View, CA

BIOGRAPHY

Paul Tang, M.D., M.S., is an Internist and VP, Chief Medical Information Officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), Sutter Health. He is also Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. At PAMF, Dr. Tang is responsible for clinical information systems, including an enterprise-wide electronic health record (EHR) system and an integrated personal health record (PHR) system. PAMF has been using an EHR system since 1999 and deployed its PHR system in 2002. Over 80,000 patients are actively using the online PHR system.

Prior to his position at PAMF, he was Medical Director of Information Systems at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School. At Northwestern, Dr. Tang implemented a computer-based patient record (CPR) system, for which he received the 1998 Nicholas E. Davies Award for Excellence in CPR System Implementation. He was named an Innovator of the Year in 2003 by Healthcare Informatics, an Innovator and Influencer in 2002 by Information Week and the 25th Most Powerful Physician Executive in 2006 by Modern Healthcare.

Dr. Tang is Chairman of the Board for the American Medical Informatics Association and is a member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, the advisory body on health information policy to the Secretary of HHS. Dr. Tang serves on the IOM’s Health Care Services Board and chaired an IOM patient safety committee whose reports were published in 2003-4: Patient Safety: A New Standard for Care, and Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System. He is a member of Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health Steering Committee and its Personal Health Technology Council. Dr. Tang has served on numerous committees of the National Institutes of Health, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, and Computer Science and Technology Board. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Medical Informatics, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.