John K. Cuddeback, MD, PhD

John Cuddeback, MD, PhD, is Chief Medical Informatics Officer of the American Medical Group Association’s Anceta Data Warehouse, which supports AMGA’s strong tradition of collaborative quality improvement. Through Anceta, participating AMGA multi-specialty medical groups receive access to comparative data and meaningful benchmarks for clinical outcomes, practice management, economics, and quality of care. Dr. Cuddeback works closely with AMGA’s member medical groups and Anceta’s partners to leverage information and information technology for collaborative quality improvement and reporting.

Dr. Cuddeback previously served as CMIO for MedStar Health, the largest healthcare provider in the Washington, DC – Baltimore region. MedStar includes Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington Hospital Center, and National Rehabilitation Hospital in DC, four community teaching hospitals in Baltimore, a large home care agency, and MedStar Research Institute. While at MedStar, Dr. Cuddeback led the implementation of an advanced clinical documentation and CPOE system for obstetrics and an ambulatory EMR within many MedStar physician practices. Dr. Cuddeback worked with physician leaders to gain adoption of a system for risk-adjusted outcome measurement across all MedStar hospitals, and he also led MedStar’s HIPAA initiative.

Before coming to MedStar in 1999, Dr. Cuddeback served as CIO and later as Vice President for Health Policy at Shands HealthCare, the clinical enterprise of the University of Florida. He led a statewide initiative to develop the risk adjustment model for Florida’s first “hospital report cards,” under a University contract with the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration. As Shands’ CIO, he led the development of several point-of-care systems, an integrated clinical–financial data warehouse, and a robust analytical capability.

Dr. Cuddeback received the MD and PhD (in physiology, with a minor in statistics) from Indiana University, and he completed his residency in clinical pathology at the University of Florida.