California eHealth Collaborative is pleased to present Dr. Richard Taylor, Chief Medical Information Officer for Providence Health and Services in the Oregon Region.

A native of Colorado, the son of a mineralogist and an ordained minister, Dr. Taylor’s career did not begin in medicine. He started in 1978 as a software engineer, working for several high technology firms over a span of sixteen years. He developed operating systems, designed high-availability and embedded software, created educational computing systems, and did formal user interface research. Dr. Taylor also worked in roles in Customer Support and Applications Engineering. In 1994, Dr. Taylor lef t full-time software engineering to enter medical school.

He received his medical degree from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1998, and completed a three-year pediatric residency at The Children’s Hospital of Denver in 2001. Dr. Taylor then took two positions, one working for Kaiser Permanente as a pediatric hospitalist and float physician, and one working for a medical device development firm working on FDA-approved diagnostic and therapeutic devices. Dr. Taylor continued this dual pathway for some time, working as a pediatric hospitalist for Kaiser until 2008 while working as a physician IT lead for Kaiser and then, in 2006, as a physician executive for McKesson Corporation. In early 2008, Dr. Taylor left Kaiser to take his current role with  Providence.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 1:00pm Pacific
Dr. Richard Taylor, Chief Medical Information Officer, Providence Health and Services, Oregon Region
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