Richard Paula

Hi, I'm Richard Paula. Welcome to my profile!

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Dr. Paula is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Shriners Hospitals for Children. He was formerly at Tampa General, during his tenure TGH was awarded HIMSS Level 7 certification Dec 2013, joining only 2.2% of hospitals nationwide in IT infrastructure penetration and use. He grew up in coastal NJ, he is married to a fellow physician, and has 2 children. He is responsible for physician integration and adoption of the enterprise EMR project. Prior to being named CMIO at Shriners Hospitals for Children he practiced Emergency Medicine at Tampa General. While in the ER, Dr. Paula helped establish the Emergency Medicine residency program as well as serving as the Director of Research and Assistant Professor. He secured the first NIH funded study focused on Emergency Medicine, and enabled the program to become a leading research site. His initial experience with EMR was leading the implementation of the Emergency Department EMR system at Tampa General, which went live a full 3 years before the hospital and has now been up and running since 2008. In his spare time Dr Paula has written for CMIO magazine, and contributes regularly to WebMD. Dr. Paula is on the board of governors for Paper Free Florida, working to spread EMR adoption across community physician practices. He grew up in coastal NJ where he went to college and graduated from UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School outside of Philadelphia in 1996, prior to completing his residency in Emergency Medicine at the erstwhile Charity Hospital in New Orleans. He is married to a fellow physician, and has 2 children.

CMIO at Shriners Hospitals for Children

January 2014 - Present | Tampa, FL

Chief Medical Informatics Officer

Medical Director Paramedic Program at South Eastern College

2010 - Present

Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Tampa General Hospital

March 2010 - January 2014

Associate Medical Director Tampa General Adult Emergency Medicine at Team Health

June 2007 - February 2010

Responsibilities included: -Performance improvement by using flow metrics to up-coach individual physicians -Workflow statistics across groups and individuals -Patient complaint resolution

Associate Professor at University of South Florida College of Medicine

July 2003

Clinical Associate Professor Division of Emergency Medicine

Physician Consultant at FMQAI

2001

Physician consultant -Performance improvement on individual and organizational level -Physician quality improvement -Case review involving quality concerns and medical resource utilization

Physician Emergency Medicine at Tampa General Hospital

June 2000

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

1996 – 2000

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey -Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

1994 – 1996

MD

Concentration: Medicine

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

1986 – 1990

BA

Concentration: English Literature