Tomás Moran is an MIT trained civil engineer who became a national leader in health quality and the use of information in transforming health systems – at Stanford Hospital, at Palo Alto Medical Foundation. In 2008, he was appointed as the first non-medical Chair of the Quality Council at the American Group Medical Association.

Most recently, he provided the leadership and technical know-how in the design and implementation of a value-based payment (VBP) system for the Jackson County Missouri Mental Health Fund. The VBP Initiative is the first of its kind in the United States, using a ground-up method for developing quality indicators to better engage the human resources essential to achieving long-term success in using data for continuous quality improvement. As lead principal with Integrus Health Group on this initiative, he has conceptualized the training of culture and skill sets across two dozen provider entities as well as with the Fund’s central staff and Board. He is currently engaged in a final year of training and materials development to assure fidelity of the VBP Initiative.  Assuring the quality, accuracy and timeliness of data is central to the Initiative, with success achieved regionally as of March 2024.

Following his development of the first computerized laboratory system for Stanford’s Department of Pathology, Tomás was brought into quality assurance at a time of systemic adoption of Juran’s quality improvement principles – a sea change that was first implemented in cutting edge hospitals before moving to outpatient systems.

His passion has been the maximization of resources through continuous improvement and the application of industrial engineering principles. He is widely regarded for his ability to harness information to clinical and administrative functions through valuing staff at the front end of systems. He was recruited to Palo Alto Medical Foundation as Senior Director for Planning and Quality to create and manage the paradigm shift among medical and administrative staff in moving to value-based payment (1999-2008).

Through his former company, Health Metrics Systems, Tomás has been seminally engaged in developing the software for the support of a regional health information network in the Kansas City region. He is currently involved with the Pathcheck Foundation, spun out of his alma mater MIT, in the building and testing of privacy-preserving algorithms to allow patients to manage their own health records (see Moran & Associates).

His formal education includes a B.S. from MIT in Civil Engineering and an MS in Transportation Sciences from University California Berkeley.