Thomas

Payne

MD

Bio

Thomas Payne is a primary care internist, Professor of Medicine and of Biomedical Informatics, and for 20 years served as Medical Director for Information Technology Services at University of Washington Medicine. He is past Board Chair of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

Dr. Payne’s major professional interest is the use and evaluation of clinical computing systems, especially electronic health records, in patient care, clinical research, and quality improvement. He graduated from Stanford and received his medical degree from the University of Washington. He completed his residency in medicine at University of Colorado and an NLM fellowship in Medical Information Science at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health. He is attending physician at UW Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center in both inpatient and outpatient care.

He chaired the AMIA EHR 2020 Task Force and testified before the U.S. Senate HELP Committee on its contents. He is on the faculty of the AMIA Clinical Informatics Board Review course, the edits a textbook on clinical computing systems and is author of over 100 articles in informatics.

HEALTH SYSTEMS-RELATED ACTIVITIES

Clinical Implementation

Clinical Informatics

Education

• Undergraduate Medical Education
• Graduate Medical Education

Leadership and Management

• Former ITS Medical Director

Mentorship

• Clinical Informatics

Policy

• National – Professional Society: AMIA

Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

• QI Work: Informatics

Research

• Informatics and AI