Rick Moore, PhD  is a highly accomplished, results-driven, board-certified healthcare executive leader with extensive experience working within highly complex organizations. With over 20 years of military service (Retired Air Force Major), coupled with 20 years of private not-for-profit experience, including 14 years as the Chief Information Officer at NCQA, Rick has a deep and broad track record of leading strategic development and revenue growth using technology and superior cyber security programs.

Rick supports Covalence Health's clients as a Fractional CTO/CIO, CISO, and digital health transformation advisor.

Rick helped co-create the eCQM standards that became part of the national health reform policy under the ARRA/HITECH and led the NCQA HEDIS transformation to the Digital Quality Measures (DQM) format. While at NCQA, Rick developed the Data Aggregator Validation program, the latest program to democratize digital data for quality measurement reporting. While at NACHRI, Rick led the development of the Pediatric Quality Measurement System. In addition, Rick is also a Certified Information Security Manager who conducts security validation assessments for DirectTrust/HITRUST, and he also serves as Adjunct Faculty for Virginia Commonwealth University and Hofstra University, where he develops and instructs courses in healthcare management, informatics, privacy, and security, and project management.

Rick holds a PhD in Health-Related Sciences from VCU, a Master's in Healt Informatics from UAB, a Master's in Management from Troy University, and a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Technology from Southern Illinoi University at Carbondale. Rick is a veteran of United States Air Force.