Jacob Reider

Career

Jacob Reider is son of a psychiatrist who was also the son of a psychiatrist, Reider studied cognitive science at Hampshire College and started his career as a family physician. He is married to Albany Law School Dean Alicia Ouellette.

Reider was CMIO of Allscripts, a developer of Electronic Health Records, Medical Director of Clinical Systems at CapitalCare Medical Group and Associate Dean of Biomedical Informatics at Albany Medical College. In 2011 he described himself as "usability fanatic". In a 2011 interview, before he joined the government) he described experience, interest and concern about the HHS meaningful use program, and offers views on quality measurement, clinical decision support and usability. He has authored several papers on primary care topics and health information technology.

He 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. He was replaced by Karen DeSalvo on January 13, 2014.

As of 2017 he 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. He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Kyron, a healthcare analytics startup in Palo Alto, CA.