Steven Lane
Role:
Chief Medical Officer
Health Gorilla
HITAC Member Terms:
Term 1: 1/2018 – 12/2020
Term 2: 1/2021 – 12/2023
Dr. Steven Lane is a practicing primary care physician and clinical informaticist and has been a leader in advocating for health data interoperability through lowering barriers to information sharing and optimizing the utility of data exchange.
Dr. Lane is the Chief Medical Officer at Health Gorilla, which is designated as a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) within the federal Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), as well as a Qualified Health Information Organization (QHIO) within the California Data Exchange Framework (DxF).
Dr. Lane began his informatics career in 1990, supporting the hospital information system at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He was Ambulatory Physician Lead during Sutter Health’s Ambulatory EHR implementation in Northern California in 1999, their first-in-the-country implementation of an EHR-integrated patient portal in 2001, and 29 hospital acute care implementation completed in 2015. He served as Sutter’s Clinical Informatics Director for Privacy, Information Security & Interoperability until 2022 when he joined Health Gorilla.
Dr. Lane currently serves as chair of the Carequality Steering Committee, co-chair of The Sequoia Project's Privacy & Consent Workgroup, and as a member of the TEFCA Transitional Council, the HIMSS Public Policy Committee, the HL7 Da Vinci Project Clinical Advisory Council, and the California Data Exchange Framework Policies and Procedures Subcommittee. Dr. Lane is Clinical Professor of Family & Community Medicine at UCSF and an Instructor in Clinical Informatics at Stanford University.