Young-Taek Park is a research fellow at the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) in Korea. The HIRA is a semi-governmental agency that acts as a third-party administrator to provide professional health insurance review and assessment services under the National Health Insurance Program. He received his doctorate (Ph.D.) from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (MN), majoring in Health Informatics and minoring in Health Service Research, Policy, and Administration in the United States. He spent most of his career as a researcher in the medical field. He is interested in a variety of topics, including electronic medical records, personal health records, health information exchange, health information technology, artificial intelligence, and health service research. He has several publications related to these topics.