Program Requirements for Fellowship Education in the Subspecialty of Clinical Informatics

Safran, Charles; Shabot, M. Michael; Munger, Benson S.; Holmes, John H.; Steen, Elaine B.; Lumpkin, John R.; Detmer, Don E.

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“…Nursing and physician certification processes share similarities with regard to skills and competencies required to demonstrate eligibility for and maintain certification in their fields. The motivation and need for obtaining formal [20], [22], [39], [40], [42] Informatics competencies as listed on the outline for board certification: leading and managing change, health information systems, fundamentals of informatics, clinical decision making and care process improvement, legal, ethical, and regulatory issues Eligibility is limited to physicians with MD or DO degree; current, unrestricted medical license in the U.S.; current American board certification in primary clinical discipline or pathology Continuing education needs for maintenance of certification; requires examination once every 10 years certification may be driven by prospects for positions in the field. However, this remains to be seen with respect to physicians, who at present do not need formal board certification in clinical informatics to take operational, teaching, research, or leadership positions such as chief health or medical informatics officers or directors of clinical informatics.…”

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“…This was the culmination of a 6-year effort by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) [38]. Leading informatics professionals developed the core content and fellowship requirements [39,40] that formed the foundation of clinical informatics as a distinct subspecialty [21,41]. The subspecialty certification is co-sponsored by the American Board of Preventive Medicine and the American Board of Pathology.…”

Section: Comparison Of Informatics Certification Processes For Nursesmentioning

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Transforming Data into Knowledge: How to Improve the Efficiency of Clinical Care?

Séroussi¹,

Soualmia²,

Holmes³

2017

Yearb Med Inform

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Summary Objectives: To provide an introduction to the 2017 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics by the editors. Methods: We present a brief overview of the 2017 special topic “Learning from experience: Secondary use of patient data”. We review our choice of special topic section editors, present the new section “Health Information Management”, and discuss transitions in the editorial team. Results: In this edition of the Yearbook, we focused on one of the most important issues for the medical informatics community: The secondary use of clinical data. With the ubiquitous adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and the increasing availability of genomic and environmental data, as well as the accessibility of unstructured data in social media, issues related to data integration, storage, and management, as well as the need for novel analytic approaches are clear challenges. The paradigm of Learning Health Systems (LHSs) is presented in the keynote paper and survey papers review the significant developments in allied fields such as clinical research, clinical systems, translational informatics, and public health over the past two years. IMIA Working Groups also contributed to this topic. Conclusion: The 2017 issue of the IMIA yearbook focuses on the secondary use of patient data and presents the difficulties that still need to be solved before witnessing the actual development of LHSs.

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Section: Comparison Of Informatics Certification Processes For Nursesmentioning

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Transforming Data into Knowledge: How to Improve the Efficiency of Clinical Care?

Séroussi¹,

Soualmia²,

Holmes³

2017

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“…Safran [ 154 ] and Gardner [ 70 ] and associates defi ned the subspecialty of clinical informatics as using informatics concepts, methods and tools: (1) to assess information and knowledge needs of health care professionals and patients; (2) to characterize, evaluate, and refi ne clinical processes; (3) to develop, implement, and refi ne clinical decision support systems; and (4) to lead or participate in the procurement, customization, development, implementation, management, evaluation, and continuous improvement of clinical infor-mation systems, such as electronic health records and order-entry systems. In a companion article, Detmer [ 56 ] and associates described the tasks performed by clinical informaticians in four major knowledge and skills that clinical informaticians must master: (1) fundamentals; (2) clinical decision making and care process improvement; (3) health information systems; and (4) leadership and management of change.…”

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“…The fi rst Department of Computer Medicine had earlier been established at the Tulane University by Sweeney, who became the fi rst Professor of Computer Medicine. The fi rst Division of Clinical Informatics was established at the Harvard Medical School and its affi liates by Bleich and Slack, and was later formalized and led by Safran [ 154 ]. Shortliffe started a graduate degree program in medical information sciences at Stanford University in 1982, but within a few years had dubbed the academic unit that offered the degrees the Section on Medical Informatics.…”

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The Creation of a New Discipline

Collen¹,

Shortliffe²

2015

Health Informatics

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The increasingly complex informatics technology that evolved since 1950 created a new domain of knowledge and a new professional discipline. In this chapter we discuss the foundations and evolution of the fi eld of medical informatics, focusing on the role of publications, professional organizations, government, and industry in promoting the fi eld's growth, success, and impact. The earliest reports on biomedical applications of computers began to appear at conferences sponsored by professional engineering societies as early as 1947. The English term, medical informatics , was successfully introduced at an international meeting held in 1974. Subsequently the range of topics and the fi eld's scientifi c base have broadened, while academic informatics programs have been established at a growing number of institutions. The number of informatics articles published annually has grown rapidly, as have peer-reviewed informatics journals, the fi rst two of which were launched in the 1960s. The fi rst comprehensive medical informatics textbook (published in 1990) is now in its fourth edition. Starting in the 1960s, multiple organizations have been formed to focus on medical informatics; as their activities and infl uence increased, mergers followed, ultimately resulting in the creation of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in 1988. Other key players have included nursing, industry, academia, and the federal government, especially through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). More recently the fi eld has been further nurtured at the federal level by the Offi ce of the National Coordinator (ONC), which has championed the diffusion of electronic medical records, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS), which has funded clinical translational science awards and their supporting information systems.

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“…Efforts by the American Medical Informatics Association to institute a formal medical informatics subspecialty fellowship for physicians [7,8] are well underway. With the support of its sponsoring and sister organizations, it is easy to envision that CIIP certification can become the focus and target of an analagous career training pathway for imaging IT professionals.…”

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Certification of Imaging Informatics Professionals (CIIP): 2010 Survey of Diplomates

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The Certification for Imaging Informatics Professionals (CIIP) program is sponsored by the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine and the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists through the American Board of Imaging Informatics. In 2005, a survey was conducted of radiologists, technologists, information technology specialists, corporate information officers, and radiology administrators to identify the competencies and skill set that would define a successful PACS administrator. The CIIP examination was created in 2007 in response to the need for an objective way to test for such competencies, and there have been 767 professionals who have been certified through this program to date. The validity of the psychometric integrity of the examination has been previously established. In order to further understand the impact and future direction of the CIIP certification on diplomats, a survey was conducted in 2010. This paper will discuss the results of the survey.

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Program Requirements for Fellowship Education in the Subspecialty of Clinical Informatics

Cited by 78 publications

References 2 publications

Transforming Data into Knowledge: How to Improve the Efficiency of Clinical Care?

Transforming Data into Knowledge: How to Improve the Efficiency of Clinical Care?

The Creation of a New Discipline

Certification of Imaging Informatics Professionals (CIIP): 2010 Survey of Diplomates

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