Rick Moore

Rick Moore

Rick_Moore_bw_web.jpgAs NCQA’s Chief Information Officer, Rick Moore is responsible for the vision and strategic direction of the Information Services, Information Technology and Information Products. He also works closely with NCQA’s stakeholder partners and represents NCQA on leading several national health information technology initiatives and panels including the Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), the National Quality Forum (NQF) Health Information Technology Expert Panel (HITEP), the Markle Foundation’s Steering Committee on Connecting for Health, and the American Medical Association (AMA) and NCQA Collaborative for Improving Quality Measurement in Electronic Health Records.

Prior to joining NCQA in 2008, he was the Director of Health Informatics at the National Association of Children’s Hospitals where he led the development of information services and products for over 200 member hospitals.He has also served the Office of the Secretary of Health Affairs at the Department of Defense and was awarded the Information Technology Officer of the Year of the Joint Medical Information Systems Office in 2004.

From 2001 to 2003, he was competitively selected by the U.S. Air Force Medical Service to attend the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he studied Health Informatics.  In 2002, he was selected as a recipient of the HIMSS Foundation Richard P. Covert National Scholarship Award.

Previously, he has served as the Director of Medical Readiness at Langley Hospital and was recognized as the Medical Readiness Officer of the Year for the command. He has also served as the Director of Managed Care for Moody Community Hospital and was selected in 1996 as the Air Force Medical Service’s Managed Care/Patient Administrator of the Year.

He holds a graduate degree in Health Informatics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, as well as a graduate degree in Management from Troy State University.  He is a certified health care executive and Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), a Fellow of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (FHIMSS), a certified Professional in Health Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Industry Collaborations

Rick Moore works with the following organizations as a member of committees, panels and workgroups to further NCQA's mission to improve health care quality.

  • Collaborative for Performance Measure Integration

    Co-sponsored by NCQA, the American Medical Association and the Electronic Health Record Vendors Association, the Collaborative comprises a group of stakeholders—performance measure developers, EHR vendors, physician users, and technical experts—in the physician performance measurement and quality improvement arena who share the goal to facilitate the integration of performance measures in EHR systems.

  • Markle Foundation's Connecting for Health

    Connecting for Health is a public-private collaborative designed to address the barriers in the development of an interconnected health information infrastructure.

  • NQF's Health Information Technology Panel

    The National Quality Forum's Health Information Technology Panel is developing a set of common data elements and health care workflow changes to enable automation of performance measures through electronic health records and health information exchanges.

  • Taconic Health Information Network and Community

    The Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC) is a multi-stakeholder, community-wide data exchange among community physicians, hospitals, reference laboratories, pharmacies, payers, employers, and consumers in the Hudson Valley, New York area.

  • HIMSS Public Policy and Advocacy Committee

    The Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) mobilizes its members and seeks to perform multiple levels of advocacy activities through a variety of initiatives. In addition, HIMSS works closely with key federal decision-makers and the 21st Century Health Care Caucus to advance improvements in the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare through the use of IT and management systems.

  • ANSI's Healthcare Information Technology Standards

    The American National Standards Institute Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) serves as a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors for the purpose of achieving a widely accepted and useful set of standards specifically to enable and support widespread interoperability among healthcare software applications, as they will interact in a local, regional and national health information network for the United States.

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