Alan Weiss, MD, FACP

Alan M. Weiss joined the BayCare Health System as its chief medical information officer in August 2018. He has primary responsibility over all clinical systems and their associated governance and provides executive leadership over data and analytics. Prior to BayCare, Dr. Weiss spent five years in the Memorial Herman Health System in Houston as its first ambulatory CMIO. In that role, he had responsibilities over GE Centricity, Cerner and eClinic Works EHRs. Central to that role was EHR optimization efforts as well as the conversion of GE Centricity to Cerner. Before joining Memorial Hermann, Dr. Weiss was the associate medical director of inpatient systems at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, where he helped develop and implement its Epic EHR. A general internist by training, Dr. Weiss spent 10 years practicing at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. He also reported directly to its CIO to assist with EHR implementation and optimization efforts, was head of its business informatics group in primary care, head of main campus internal medicine operations, and an internal medicine section head. Dr. Weiss also spent time teaching medical students and residents while providing ambulatory and inpatient care. Before medical school, Dr. Weiss worked for Eli Lilly as a clinical information analyst, helping to develop data entry systems for clinical trials and analyzing that data for Food and Drug Administration reporting and for medical journals. Dr. Weiss earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan with a double major in computer science and philosophy. He also has Master of Business Administration and medical degrees from Case Western Reserve University. His MBA involves a double focus on healthcare management and the management of information systems. Dr. Weiss is passionate about patient care and advocates for the proper use of data and analytics to refine EHR development toward the inclusion of evidence-based medicine.