Los Altos Center
370 Distel Circle
Los Altos, California 94022
Phone: (650) 254-5200
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Department: |
Internal Medicine
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Specialty: |
Internal Medicine, Board Certified
* Closed, physician is not currently accepting new patients
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Affiliation: |
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
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Education/training: |
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Medical education: |
University of California, San Francisco, 1981 |
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Internship: |
Stanford University Medical Center, CA |
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Residency: |
Stanford University Medical Center, CA |
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Professional interests: |
Electronic health record systems, personal health record systems, clinical decision support, privacy and confidentiality of consumer health information, health information public policy, online disease management |
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Community activities: |
Elected Institute of Medicine member, American College of Physicians, American College of Medical Informatics, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, American Medical Informatics Association (Immediate-Past Board Chair), Institute of Medicine's Health Care Services Board, National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, Institute of Medicine Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans, American Health Information Community Consumer Empowerment Work Group, National Quality Forum Consensus Standards Approval Committee, National Quality Forum Health Information Technology Expert Panel (Chair), Quality Alliance Steering Committee Measurement Implementation Strategy Committee (Co-Chair), Robert Wood Johnson National Advisory Council (Chair) on Personal Health Records, Markle Foundation Connecting for Health, Center for Information Technology Leadership
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Paul C. Tang, M.D., M.S., 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. Dr. Tang is the vice-chair of the federal Health Information Technology Policy Committee, and chair of its Meaningful Use Work Group. Established under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the group advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on policies related to health information technology.An elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Dr. Tang chaired an IOM patient safety committee, which published reports in 2003/2004: Patient Safety: A New Standard for Care, and Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System. He is also a member of the IOM Board on Health Care Services.
Dr. Tang chairs the National Quality Forum's Health Information Technology Expert Panel and is a member of the NQF Consensus Standards Approval Committee. Dr. Tang is the immediate past-chair of the board for the American Medical Informatics Association and a member of the board of the National eHealth Collaborative. He is a member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), and co-chair of the NCVHS Quality Subcommittee. Dr. Tang co-chairs the Measurement Implementation Strategy work group of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee and chairs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s National Advisory Council for ProjectHealth Design. He has published numerous papers in medical informatics, especially related to EHRs and PHRs, and has delivered over 250 invited presentations to national and international organizations and associations. Dr. Tang is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the American College of Physicians, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
Dr. Tang in the News
100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare, Modern Healthcare, August 24, 2009
Paul Tang, M.D., PAMF CMO, Named to 2009 Most Powerful Physician-Executive List, Modern Healthcare, May 11, 2009
Paul Tang, M.D., PAMF CMO, Appointed to Federal HIT Advisory Committee, Healthcare IT News, May 8, 2009
Part One: Healthcare Informatics, October 20, 2008 |
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