Jacob Reider

Jacob Reider, MD

Dr. Reider is a family physician from Slingerlands, New York, where he continues to practice on an occasional basis in a two-physician office, in addition to his primary professional role as Chief Medical Officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the US Department of Health and Human Services.

He has 18 years of experience in Healthcare Information Technology with a special interest in user experience and information portability.

Jacob's public service includes a term as Chair of the Clinical Committee of the Health Information Exchange of New York (HIxNY), a term on the Board of Trustees of The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and as a member of the National Quality Forum’s Health Information Technology Expert Panel’s (HITEP) Quality Data Set Workgroup. He serves on the IHE Quality Domain, the HITSPQuality Tiger Team, and is a member of ASTME31. He formerly served as Medical Director of Hospital Informatics at Albany Medical Center, and as Associate Dean for Biomedical Informatics at Albany Medical College where he continues to teach on an adjunct basis. Dr. Reider's clinical interests include evidence-based management of common outpatient priorities such as maternity care, otitis media, sinusitis, and bronchitis.

Jacob is married to Alicia Ouellette. He has two children, Molly and Sampson.