Paul C.
Tang, MD, MS
Vice President, Chief Medical Information Officer
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Dr. Tang is an Internist and Vice President, Chief Medical Information Officer
at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), and is Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine
(Biomedical Informatics) at Stanford University. At PAMF, Dr. Tang is responsible for the
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 2001.
Approximately 130,000 patients, representing over 50% of PAMF’s adult primary care patients,
are actively using the PHR system, PAMFOnline. |
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Dr. Tang received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and his
M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his residency in Internal
Medicine at Stanford University and is a Board-certified practicing Internist. Dr. Tang
co-chaired the Strategy and Implementation subcommittee of the 1991 Institute of Medicine (IOM)
committee which recommended that the United States adopt computer-based patient record
systems nationwide. He served as Chairman of the Board of the Computer-based Patient Record
Institute, a public-private entity created following the release of the IOM’s report.
In 1994, Dr. Tang was appointed 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.
Dr. Tang is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and serves on its Health Care
Services Board. He 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 the Immediate Past-Chair of the Board for the American Medical
Informatics Association, a member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
(NCVHS) and co-chairs its Quality Subcommittee. Dr. Tang chairs the National Quality
Forum’s (NQF) Health Information Technology Expert Panel, is a member of the NQF
Consensus Standards Approval Committee, and co-chairs the Quality Alliance Steering
Committee’s Measurement Implementation Strategy subcommittee. Dr. Tang is a board member
of the newly formed National eHealth Collaborative, an independent, public-private organization
formed to promote the creation and use of a secure interoperable nationwide health information
system. He chairs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s National Advisory Council for
ProjectHealth Design (a program for innovative PHRs) and is also a member of Markle
Foundation’s Connecting for Health Steering Committee.
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. |
