Paul Tang, M.D., M.S., is Vice President, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), and is Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Tang directs the David Druker Center for Health Systems Innovation and also oversees PAMF's electronic health record (EHR) system and its integrated personal health record (PHR) system, MyHealthOnline (formerly PAMFOnline). 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 is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and chaired an IOM patient safety committee which published two reports: Patient Safety: A New Standard for Care, and Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System. Dr. Tang is a Past-Chair of the Board for the American Medical Informatics Association. He is Vice Chair of the federal Health Information Technology Policy committee (HITPC), an advisory committee created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and Chair of its Meaningful Use workgroup. He is also a member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), an advisory committee to the secretary of HHS on health information policy, and co-chairs the NCVHS Quality Subcommittee. Dr. Tang chairs the National Quality Forum's (NQF) Health Information Technology Advisory Committee and co-chairs the Quality Alliance Steering Committee's Measurement Implementation Strategy subcommittee. Dr. Tang was named one of Modern Healthcare's "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare" in 2009 and "50 Most Powerful Physician Executives in Healthcare" in 2010. Information Week named him among "Healthcare's CIO 25" in 2011. Dr. Tang received the 2009 AMIA Don E. Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics. He was named an "Innovator and Influencer" by Information Week and "Healthcare Innovator" by Healthcare Informatics.