Jacob Reider
Jacob Reider is an American physician and expert in health information technology policy. Education. Reider holds a Bachelor of the Arts in cognitive science from Hampshire College, and a Doctor of Medicine from Albany Medical College. Career. Reider served as CMIO of Allscripts, a developer of Electronic Health Records, Chief Strategy Officer and later CEO of healthcare analytics startup company Kyron, based in Palo Alto, CA. He operated as Medical Director of Clinical Systems at CapitalCare Medical Group and Associate Dean of Biomedical Informatics at Albany Medical College. Reider has authored several papers on primary care topics and  health information technology. Reider was Deputy National Coordinator and Chief Medical Officer of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, a staff division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services in the executive branch of the United States Government. Reider was named acting National Coordinator when Farzad Mostashari resigned in October 2013. Reider was recognized for leading the organization's work on clinical decision support, usability and health IT safety. During this time, Reider helped to create the regulatory framework for the United States' $30B of investments in health information technology. He was  chair of the Health IT Standards Committee and led ONC's policy work on health IT certification and its relationship to the CMS EHR incentive programs. He was replaced by Karen DeSalvo on January 13, 2014. As of 2020, Reider serves as CEO of The Alliance for Better Health, a New York State DSRIP PPS and remains co-founder (with Bryan Sivak) of RS Partners, a consulting firm specializing in health innovation, Chief Health Officer of Physera, a health innovation start-up company, and a member of the Board of Directors of Avhana Health, a Clinical Decision Support company. Personal  life. Reider's father and grandfather were both psychiatrists. Reider has been married to Albany Law School Dean Alicia Ouellette for 29 years, and the couple has two children. Reider lives in Albany, NY and speaks several languages, including Spanish.