Clinical Informatics

Clinical Informatics is the application of informatics and information technology to deliver healthcare services. At times, this has also been referred to as applied clinical informatics. Despite some acknowledged variations, AMIA considers informatics when used for healthcare delivery to be essentially the same regardless of the health professional group involved (whether dentist, pharmacist, physician, nurse, or other health professional). Clinical Informatics is concerned with information use in health care by clinicians. Clinical informatics includes a wide range of topics ranging from clinical decision support to visual images (e.g. radiological, pathological, dermatological, ophthalmological, etc); from clinical documentation to provider order entry systems; and from system design to system implementation and adoption issues.

• See AMIA’s recommendations on Core Content for the Subspecialty of Clinical Informatics.
• See AMIA’s recommendations on CI Training Program Requirements.
• See the latest information about CI as a medical subspecialty.
• Read a recent article from Healthcare IT News regarding the CI certification. (September 23, 2011)