Yan Chow

Yan Chow

Chief Innovation Officer

LongView International Technology Solutions

Yan Chow, MD, MBA is the Chief Innovation Officer at LongView International Technology Solutions. He was the former Medical Director of Kaiser Permanente (KP) Information Technology’s Innovation & Advanced Technology Group (IAT), which assessed and made internal recommendations on hundreds of new and emerging clinical information technologies that will impact health care in the near future. IAT is affiliated with the Garfield Innovation Center, an award-winning care delivery simulation laboratory near Silicon Valley.Dr. Chow had a successful clinical practice at KP for several decades. He was also involved in regional IT management, overseeing a number of operational systems for 60,000 providers at 60 sites. He led experimental projects such as KP’s first PC interface for mainframes and created KP’s first national networking forum for physicians.Dr. Chow has founded and advised a number of startups in the Internet, health care technology, storage, and database spaces. He has 3 U.S. patents and has been an author and invited speaker at industry conferences.

Dr. Chow earned his A.B. with honors from Harvard University and his M.D. from UC San Diego. In 2005 he received his MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas Business School, where he graduated as valedictorian.LongView International Technology Solutions, Inc. (LongView) is an award-winning multi-ISO/CMMI appraised and certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) that provides trusted, world-class health care and security consulting services and solutions in an increasingly complex world. The company's deep expertise in mobile, analytics, cybersecurity, and infrastructure is valued by a broad constituency of clients that range from cabinet-level departments of the U.S. government to the largest federal IT contractors in the world.