The Chief Clinical Informatics Officer (CCIO)

AMIA has been at the forefront of advancing scientific research and education in informatics as well as public policy around issues related to clinical informatics. AMIA’s multidisciplinary, interprofessional membership and strategy reflect this – we have seen a rise in the number of submissions to the AMIA Annual Symposium related to the applied areas of informatics, and more emphasis in our clinical research informatics community on applied aspects of clinical research.An important trend to follow is the professionalization of the informatics field. The rise of accreditation in training programs, the growth of the clinical informatics subspecialty board diplomates (1000+), and the future development of the advanced health informatics certification has, and will, lead to an increase in the number of informatics professionals in leadership roles within their healthcare organizations.This professionalization is in part being driven by …