In addition to practicing medicine for over 22 years, Vik has over 14 years of experience in healthcare IT. Significant accomplishments include playing a key role in the development and deployment of a widely used EHR. Vik also had a successful consulting firm, GoalDirected Informatics, which assisted over 200 clinics transition from paper charts to EHR. Vik completed medical school from the Combined BA / MD Program of the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Post graduate training included medical residency, a Harvard Medical School Research Fellowship in computer applications in medicine, and a Masters Degree in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University.