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David C. Kibbe MD MBA

Senior Advisor, American Academy of Family Physicians

Pittsboro, NC

Professional summary

Dr. Kibbe is known as an innovator and independent thought leader in the fields of EHR/PHR technology, health IT standards, and participatory medicine in the United States. HIs writings have had a strong influence on the modular approach to EHRs, the development of Clinical Groupware, and the use of the Internet for Direct-compliant clinical messaging. A co-developer of the ASTM Continuity of Care Record standard, or CCR, that utilizes XML for computable health information exchange, he is an experienced clinician who practiced medicine in private and academic settings for more than 15 years. Dr. Kibbe has taught informatics at the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and founded two health care IT companies. From 2002 until 2006, Dr. Kibbe was the founding Director of the Center for Health Information Technology for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the membership organization that represents over 95,000 U.S. family doctors. The Center is now the locus of the AAFP’s technical expertise, advocacy, research and member services associated with health IT, and a leading international resource on information and communications technology for physicians in primary care. Kibbe maintains his relationship on a part time basis with the AAFP as Senior Advisor, is an active blogger on health IT policy, and provides strategic, policy, and IT consulting to a wide variety of health IT firms and institutions. He is a frequent speaker on health IT trends and innovations, especially on the topics of meaningful use, health IT in the patient-centered medical home, and physician-patient information sharing.