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| Hao Wang, Ph.D., MPA Director of Mental Health Informatics Assistant Clinical Professor (in Psychiatry) Department of Psychiatry Deputy Commissioner and Chief Information Officer, New York State Office of Mental Health |
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| Dr. Hao Wang is the Deputy Commissioner and Chief Information Officer of New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH). He sets policies and direction for information systems management, data communications, and data processing for OMH’s central office, field operations, and 26 Psychiatric Hospitals, to further OMH’s mission of promoting the mental health of all New Yorkers. He directs and applies OMH’s information technology resources in a wide range of activities designed to enhance the accountability of publicly funded mental health services. He serves as the senior Agency liaison on systems issues to local governments, private caregivers, other State and federal agencies, and the New York State CIO. He is the co-chair of the New York State CIO Council Enterprise Architecture and Technology Standard Action Team, responsible for developing state-wide enterprise architecture and technology standards. Most recently, he led the development of New York State Government Health Architecture (GHA). Prior to OMH, Hao was the Senior Manager in Accenture’s Health and Life Science practice. He helped large healthcare organizations with healthcare informatics, health information exchange, enterprise architecture, electronic health records, personal health records, data management, and information technology strategy. Recently, he helped the health insurance industry in developing the national standards related to consumer personal health records, which ultimately become standards by ASC X12 and Health Level Seven (HL7). These health information standards help facilitate consumer driven health care and make consumer longitudinal health records available at the point of care to improve health care quality and patient safety. Prior to Accenture, Hao was the senior director of information technology at Fallon Community Health Plan and the Chief Information Officer of SAFEHealth, a central Massachusetts Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO). He led the fund raising, design, development, and prototyping of an innovative health information exchange infrastructure that is capable of integrating data sources from different health care organizations producing and disseminating electronic health records for consumers. He led the technology effort for health information exchange (HIE) that ultimately won one of the first multi-year multi-million dollar grants from National Institute of Health (NIH) to implement HIE. He actively participates national initiatives to advance the healthcare informatics. In the past a few years, he has been elected or appointed as the Chairperson of HIMSS Special Interests Group for Payers; HIMSS Enterprise Information System Steering committee member; Microsoft Healthcare User Group Advisory Committee member; American Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Personal Health Record (PHR) Technical Advisory Group member, etc. He has given speeches at national conference such as HIMSS, AHIMA, and WEDI. He helped organize and plan three HIMSS Payer Symposia from 2006 to 2008. Hao received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Master in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University. |
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| Undergraduate: Peking University, B.S., 1986-1990 Graduate: Harvard University, MPA, 1998-2000 Doctoral Degree: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., 1994-1998 |
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| Address: 44 Holland Ave Albany, NY 12229 USA Phone: 518-474-7359 Personal Homepage |
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| The impact of Health Information Technology (HIT) and Health Information Exchange (HIE) on the quality and outcome of healthcare. The modulation effect of HIT on the accessibility of vulnerable population to mental health services. The unwarranted variation in mental healthcare. The technology economics as related to the applications in healthcare industry.
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