About the Speaker: Paul Tang MD
Dr. Tang is Chief Medical Information Officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Palo Alto, California and an Associate Clinical Professor at UCSF. He is the Chair-Elect of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)  and is Chair of the Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety at the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Tang is an elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. .

Abstract:
Many patients would like to take a more active role in their own health care. Yet, we cannot expect patients to become fully engaged in the management of their health conditions without providing adequate access to their information and appropriate clinical decision support tools. Dr. Tang will review shared information needs of physicians and patients and how electronic health records and integrated personal health records can enhance physician-patient partnerships in care. He will illustrate the case with electronic tools in use at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation.