Richard Schreiber, MD, FACP, FAMIA

Richard Schreiber, MD, FACP, FAMIA, retired as Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center in Camp Hill, PA in December 2022. He is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association, has been board certified in Clinical Informatics, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (BIDS) at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine teaching Leading Change in Clinical Informatics, is Adjunct Professor faculty at the University of Maryland Graduate School teaching Clinical Informatics, and is retired as Professor of Medicine at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. Prior to Penn State, he was Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer at the Geisinger Health System. He is a 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 was the local leader for yet another migration when Penn State purchased the hospital. Dr. Schreiber is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, an emeritus member of the American Medical Informatics Association, a member of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Services, a past Diplomate of the American Board of Preventive Medicine (Clinical Informatics), 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 50 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, as well as contributions to the recent revision of the SAFER guides for electronic health records. He participated in the AHRQ-funded Clinical Decision Support Innovation Consortium, helping to support and edit numerous white papers and research manuscripts. Recently he participated in and was a local principal investigator in informatics research concerning timely detection of venous thromboembolic (VTE) disease in primary care including use of natural language programming, detection algorithms, and analysis of mortality data associated with delayed VTE detection. Research currently in progress includes timely follow up of abnormal screening mammograms and abnormal (i.e., positive for blood) screening fecal tests.
Dr. Schreiber is one of the founders and leaders of the End Burnout Group (EBG), which has identified over 20 root causes of clinician burden leading to the crisis of burnout. The group, consisting of doctors, nurses, representatives from industry, and others, advocates for elimination of these root causes. The EBG has published several papers and opinion pieces, several of which stress the need to completely eliminate prior authorization and substitute Evidence-based Care Optimization. He is happy to provide further information to anyone interested.