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.

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