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Public Biography
Richard Schreiber, MD, FACP, FAMIA, is now retired Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center in Camp Hill, PA. He is board certified in Clinical Informatics, is a Professor of Medicine at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, is an Associate in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (BIDS) at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is faculty at the University of Maryland developing a graduate level course in clinical informatics, and is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. Prior to Penn State, he was Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer at the Geisinger Health System. He is immediate past chair of AMIA's Clinical Information Systems Working Group. He is an internist, geriatrician, educator, and researcher. He was previously in private practice; as CMIO he also worked part time as a hospitalist. He spearheaded physician EHR adoption and near universal computerized provider order entry (CPOE) for the first EHR which Holy Spirit utilized for over 10 years and then led the transformation to another system-wide EHR. He helped to complete yet another conversion to another EHR. Dr. Schreiber is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Diplomate of the American Board of Preventive Medicine (Clinical Informatics), the American Medical Informatics Association, the Association of Medical Directors of Information Services, and has been a member of the American Geriatrics Society and HIMSS. He received the AMDIS Special Recognition in Applied Clinical Informatics award in 2014. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His clinical informatics research focuses on EHR transitions, clinical decision support, CPOE, drug-drug interaction alerting, documentation improvement, problem list curation, and CDS anomalies.

Affiliations

Fellows of AMIA (FAMIA)

FAMIA stands for “Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association” and it recognizes the contributions and professional accomplishments of AMIA members who apply informatics skills and knowledge to their practice – be that in a clinical setting, a public or population health capacity, or as a clinical researcher.

Year Inducted
2020
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