TY - JOUR
T1 - Policy Statement on Clinical Informatics Fellowships and the Future of Informatics-Driven Medicine
AU - Kannry, Joseph
AU - Smith, Jeff
AU - Mohan, Vishnu
AU - Levy, Bruce
AU - Finnell, John
AU - Lehmann, Christoph U.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - Board certified clinical informaticians provide expertise in leveraging health IT (HIT) and health data for patient care and quality improvement. Clinical Informatics experts possess the requisite skills and competencies to make systems-level improvements in care delivery using HIT, workflow and data analytics, knowledge acquisition, clinical decision support, data visualization, and related informatics tools. However, these physicians lack structured and sustained funding because they have no billing codes. The sustainability and growth of this new and promising medical subspecialty is threatened by outdated and inconsistent funding models that fail to support the education and professional growth of clinical informaticians. The Clinical Informatics Program Directors' Community is calling upon the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to consider novel funding structures and programs through its Innovation Center for Clinical Informatics Fellowship training. Only through structural and sustained funding for Clinical Informatics fellows will be able to fully develop the potential of electronic health records to improve the quality, safety, and cost of clinical care.
AB - Board certified clinical informaticians provide expertise in leveraging health IT (HIT) and health data for patient care and quality improvement. Clinical Informatics experts possess the requisite skills and competencies to make systems-level improvements in care delivery using HIT, workflow and data analytics, knowledge acquisition, clinical decision support, data visualization, and related informatics tools. However, these physicians lack structured and sustained funding because they have no billing codes. The sustainability and growth of this new and promising medical subspecialty is threatened by outdated and inconsistent funding models that fail to support the education and professional growth of clinical informaticians. The Clinical Informatics Program Directors' Community is calling upon the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to consider novel funding structures and programs through its Innovation Center for Clinical Informatics Fellowship training. Only through structural and sustained funding for Clinical Informatics fellows will be able to fully develop the potential of electronic health records to improve the quality, safety, and cost of clinical care.
KW - Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education
KW - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
KW - clinical informatics
KW - education
KW - education and strategies for HIT
KW - professional training
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85094860958&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1055/s-0040-1717117
DO - 10.1055/s-0040-1717117
M3 - Article
C2 - 33113569
AN - SCOPUS:85094860958
SN - 1869-0327
VL - 11
SP - 710
EP - 713
JO - Applied Clinical Informatics
JF - Applied Clinical Informatics
IS - 5
ER -