Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to identify the key IT-EHR initiatives at the medical group level and formulate the physician staffing resources and requirements to support the initiatives; identify the key characteristics of an effective physician EHR leadership team and the required leadership characteristics, skills, and quality of individual members; create cross-functional leadership roles to combine administrative and EHR expertise for the dissemination of IT knowledge and continuing upgrades of physician EMR skills; and describe lessons learned in Gould Medical Group’s decade of experiences in managing talent defection and grooming succession.

Dr. Angela Lin is a practicing pediatrician who is also responsible for the electronic health record, Epic, implementation including secured online eMessaging with patients since 2007. She is a physician leader in the customer-vendor alignments of EHR stakeholders and leadership, which includes Gould Medical Group, Sutter Gould Medical Foundation, Sutter Health Central Valley Service Region, Sutter Health Information Services and Sutter Physician Services. She is a member of Gould Medical Group Finance Committee and Risk Management Committee, and she has previous experiences in Utilization Management and Physician Credentials.