Health IT jobs for physicians who are board certified in clinical informatics

Looking for a new job in health IT? Are you working as a medical director of informatics? As a CMIO?

In case you haven't heard, you can now get board certified in clinical informatics. Clinical Informatics is a subspecialty within the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM). Right now, you can either go through a formal fellowship in informatics or you can demonstrate expertise based on your working experience.

Starting in 2018, all applicants for certification in Clinical Informatics will have to complete successfully a minimum of 24 months in an ACGME-accredited Clinical Informatics fellowship program.

Physicians who practice Clinical Informatics collaborate with other health care and information technology professionals to analyze, design, implement and evaluate information and communication systems that enhance individual and population health outcomes, improve patient care, and strengthen the clinician-patient relationship. Clinical Informaticians use their knowledge of patient care combined with their understanding of informatics concepts, methods, and tools to: assess information and knowledge needs of health care professionals and patients; characterize, evaluate, and refine clinical processes; develop, implement, and refine clinical decision support systems; and lead or participate in the procurement, customization, development, implementation, management, evaluation, and continuous improvement of clinical information systems.

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Careers in informatics: a diversity of options with an abundance of jobs

Don't miss this JAMIA (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association) article titled, "Careers in informatics: a diversity of options with an abundance of jobs." There has probably never been a time like this for those interested in pursuing a career in medical informatics. Are you looking for a career as a CMIO or medical director of informatics? How about combining your experience in epidemiology and population health management and blend that into public health informatics? Maybe you'd like to experience the corporate world and work for a health IT company. Or, perhaps you'd like to invest in all these mobile health (mHealth) startup companies that are trying to revolutionize health care. Regardless of your interests, the health IT industry is booming and now is the time to jump in to ride this exciting wave of informatics.

AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) Career Center

The AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) Career Center encourages the wide spread adoption of EHRs and supports the goal of a well trained informatics workforce. By facilitating productive and geographically diverse recruitment and hiring transactions, the Career Center directly contributes to the quality and safety of health care. The Career Center creates "connective tissue" in a multidisciplinary profession, among individuals as well as organizations.

The AMIA Career Center is a venue provided to members of the biomedical and health informatics community. It is not an employment agency. The content of all postings are the exclusive responsibility of the individual or employer who submits a listing. AMIA does not make any inquiry into, and cannot be held responsible for, the truth or accuracy of any assertions in any posting. Discover job openings and find valuable employees and employers through AMIA’s Career Center. When viewing position openings or resumes, note that all inquiries should be directed to the organization or individual in the posting.

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Clinical Informatics Becomes a Board-certified Medical Subspecialty Following ABMS Vote

September 22, 2011
AMIA to offer prep courses for clinicians who sit for Board Exam

Washington, DC—Today, AMIA—the association for informatics professionals—announces the success of a multi-year initiative to elevate clinical informatics to an American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) subspecialty certified by an examination administered by the American Board of Preventive Medicine and available to physicians who have primary specialty certification through the American Board of Medical Specialties. Joining such subspecialties as pediatric anesthesiology, medical toxicology, sports medicine, geriatrics medicine, and cardiovascular disease, clinical informatics (CI) certification will be based on a rigorous set of core competencies, heavily influenced by publications on the subject that were developed by AMIA and its members, many of whom have pioneered the field and supported CI’s new status as an ABMS-recognized area of clinical expertise. The goal for the first board exam is to have it available in Fall 2012, with the first certificates awarded early in 2013. To prepare physicians who wish to sit for this examination, AMIA is developing preparatory materials both as online and in-person courses starting Spring 2012.

"It is entirely appropriate and timely to certify clinical informatics as a specialized area of training and expertise in an era when more and more clinicians are turning to data-driven, computer-assisted clinical decision support to provide care for their patients," said AMIA’s Board of Directors Chair Nancy M. Lorenzi, PhD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “Clinical informatics blends medical and informatics knowledge to support and optimize healthcare delivery."

Clinical Informatics emerging as an ABMS-approved medical specialty

Right now, you can get a master's degree in informatics. You can complete a fellowship in informatics. However, there is no established "Clinical Informatics" medical speciality recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). That's about to change.

According to a story on InformationWeek Health Care:

A committee of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) on July 27 recommended that clinical informatics be defined as a subspecialty of the American Board of Preventive Medicine and the American Board of Pathology, the two specialty boards that cosponsored the proposal. The ABMS board of directors and the ABMS assembly are expected to approve the recommendation in late September.

...board-certified physicians... will be eligible to sit for the board exam in clinical informatics... physicians currently working in the clinical informatics field will not have to go through a training program to sit for the board exam... there will be a pathway to board certification that doesn't require training in a certified program if candidates have significant experience in the field...