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In interprofessional health care teams, individuals with distinct professional training supply unique expertise and work together to solve health care problems.2,3 When these teams span different branches of knowledge or subspecialties, they are also considered interdisciplinary.2,4 Interprofessional teams in health care are effective because they draw on diverse expertise to address complex problems in holistic ways.5,6 Interprofessional teams operate in health care facilities, academic institutions, and community or public health settings.7 In clinical settings, interprofessional teams provide less fragmented,8,9 higher quality,9,10 safer,11 and more effective12–14 care. Interprofessional teams are recommended by the World Health Organization15,16 and the National Academy of Medicine.17 Further, educational institutions and accreditors,18 including the Accreditation Committee for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME),19 embrace interprofessional education (IPE), to prepare health care professionals “for the world of intercollaborative practice.”7 In parallel, the National Institutes of Health and others urge interdisciplinary “team science” in biomedical research.20 Are health informaticians considered members of interprofessional teams? Our informal review of major textbooks,21,22 reports,7 and articles1,23–25 found no mention of health informaticians as members of interprofessional health care teams.Apublished2013 reviewdescribed themake-upof interprofessional teams in 17 articles26; informaticians were not included in any (see►Supplementary Material, available in the online version). Furthermore, including HI students in IPE initiatives appears to be an exception, not the rule.27,28 When HI is mentioned in the literature on interprofessional health care, it is as a set of tools that “has the capacity to support the work of health care teams”29 and improve IPE.30 We argue that health informaticians have a professional role on teams, apart from providing direct care. This role should be better defined and communicated to other professions.When a problem involves data or information, informaticians add value by applying competencies in “management and use of biomedical information.”31 This is evident in realms such as evidencebased health care delivery,32 precision medicine,33 population health management,34 public health surveillance,35 and

Best Practices for Health Informatician Involvement in Interprofessional Health Care Teams