multi-disciplinary collaborative communication, translating complex topics to audiences that don’t speak the language, know hospital policies and processes, and are deeply committed to quality and process improvement.

Physician Informaticists have the technical knowledge to critically evaluate these systems and the workflow expertise to know if it can work, how it can work, and most importantly, how to implement it so their colleagues will use it.

(re-)teach them the recommended workflow

too many that consider the EHR only as an afterthought when it comes time to workflow enhancements, problem solving, or optimizations.

Physician Informaticists are vitally important to all organizations and practices because we live at the intersection of clinical medicine and technology and everyone deserves efficient, effective, workflows.

Physician/APP informaticists/builders.* We are the critical translator bridge between the worlds of bedside medicine and the IT teams behind the clinical software tools. We understand the workflows because we live them, and we understand the technology tools because we build them. So when there is a workflow problem, we are uniquely qualified to... See more