Thomas Payne, MD | Division of General Internal Medicine

Professor

Medicine

Adjunct Professor

Health Services

Adjunct Professor

Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education

Faculty Information

Biography

Education & Training:

University of Washington, School of Medicine

Seattle, WA

1980

Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine

University of Colorado Affiliated Hospitals

Boulder, CO

1980–1983

Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa

1976

Alpha Omega Alpha

1980

National Library of Medicine Training Grant

1987–1989

Special Contribution Award, Department of Veterans Affairs

1997–1998

Public Service Recognition Award from Seattle Federal Executive Board

2000

Elected to Fellowship, American College of Physicians and American College of Medical Informatics

2001

UW School of Medicine Service Excellence Award

2008

Elected to Fellowship, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

2010

Inaugural Chief of Medicine Award, UWMC

2012

Top Doctor Award, Seattle Met Magazine

2012

Contact

Email:

tpayne@u.washington.edu

Research & Clinical Interests

Research Interests:

The use of electronic health records in patient care, clinical research, and quality improvement
Computerized practitioner order entry
Notes in computer-based medical records and their content
Clinical computing

Publications

Publications:

Payne TH. The electronic health record as a catalyst for quality improvement in patient care. Heart. 2016 Aug 8.
Payne TH, Corley S, Cullen TA, et al. Report of the AMIA EHR-2020 Task Force on the status and future direction of EHRs. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Sep;22(5):1102–10.
Payne TH. Electronic health records and patient safety: Should we be discouraged? BMJ Qual Saf. 2015 Apr;24(4):239–40.
Payne TH, Bates DW, Berner ES, et al. Healthcare information technology and economics. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: JAMIA. 2013 Mar–Apr;20(2):212–7.
Payne TH, Detmer DE, Wyatt JC, Buchan IE. National-scale clinical information exchange in the United Kingdom: Lessons for the United States. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: JAMIA. 2011 18(1):91–8.