Paul Tang, M.D.
Vice President, Chief Health Transformation Officer, IBM Watson Health;
Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford University
At Watson Health, Dr. Tang is responsible for ensuring that IBM technologies, capabilities and data are applied to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities, using cognitive insights.
Prior to coming to Watson Health, Dr. Tang was Chief Innovation and Technology Officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), overseeing the David Druker Center for Health Systems Innovation, a disruptive innovation center focused on grand challenges in health. He was the first to implement an electronic health record system in California in 1999 and co-developed the personal health record system with Epic in 2000. Currently, over 86% of PAMF patients are using the personal health record system.
Dr. Tang has dedicated his professional career to improving the quality of health care in America, innovative uses of health information technology (HIT), empowering patients through HIT, and shaping public policy to enhance health and health care in the US. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) and has served on numerous IOM study committees, including a patient-safety committee he chaired that published two reports: Patient Safety: A New Standard for Care, and Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System.
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.
