Yan Chow, MD, MBA

Director Innovation and Advanced Technology

Yan Chow, MD, MBA, is the director of Kaiser Permanente (KP) Information Technology’s Innovation & Advanced Technology Group (IAT). IAT identifies, assesses, and makes internal recommendations on new and emerging clinical information technologies that will impact health care in the next two to five years.

Yan has had a successful clinical practice at Kaiser Permanente for over two decades. For 10 of those years, he was also involved in regional IT management, overseeing a number of operational systems, including enterprise email, reference databases, and CIPS, the primary system used by 58,000 providers in 60 dispersed sites to manage schedules, labs, radiology results, medications, and immunizations.

Yan has also founded and advised a number of startups in the Internet, health care technology, storage, and database spaces. He has three U.S. patents for a network storage architecture two orders of magnitude faster than competitors and has developed software to accelerate very large database (VLB) processing 240-fold. He has been an author and invited speaker at industry conferences.

Yan earned his AB with honors from Harvard University and his medical degree from the University of California at San Diego. In 2005 he received his MBA from the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he graduated as valedictorian.