Paul Kaye, MD, has been a pediatrician for 30 years and medical director of Hudson River HealthCare (HRHCare) since 1991. HRHCare is a JCAHO-accredited community health center network that serves over 45,000 patients at 14 sites in New York state. Since 1998, HRHCare has been working with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Bureau of Primary Health Care to implement new models of primary care delivery, using health information technology to guide improvements in health outcomes. In 2000, HRHCare became one of the first community health centers in the nation to move to an electronic medical record. In 2007, it received recognition from the National Center on Quality Assurance’s Physician Practice Connections program. Dr. Kaye is co-chair of the Pay for Performance and Medical Homes Workgroup of the National Association of Community Health Centers, and a two-time past chair of its Clinical Practice Committee. He is chair of the Clinical Committee of CHCANYS (the Community Health Care Association of New York State). He has served on numerous quality and health information technology advisory groups for both state and federal governments, and was a national faculty member of the Bureau of Primary Health Care’s Health Disparities Collaboratives. He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Panel for the Commonwealth Fund’s Transforming Safety Net Clinics into Medical Homes project. He is treasurer of THINC RHIO, Inc, a nationally recognized community health information network in the Hudson Valley. Dr. Kaye is a graduate of the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center and did his pediatric residency at University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison.
