Clinical Informatics Board Certification: History, Current Status, and Predicted Impact on the Clinical Informatics Workforce

Don E. Detmer MD MA; Benson S. Munger PhD; Christoph U. Lehmann MD

doi:10.4338/ACI-2009-11-R-0016

Applied Clinical Informatics, Table of Contents

Appl Clin Inform 2010; 01(01): 11-18
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2009-11-R-0016

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Clinical Informatics Board Certification: History, Current Status, and Predicted Impact on the Clinical Informatics Workforce

Don E. Detmer MD MA

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

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Benson S. Munger PhD

²Senior Advisor, AMIA, Bethesda, MD, USA, Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center, Tucson, AZ, USA

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Christoph U. Lehmann MD

³Pediatrics and Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

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Education - Professional training - Clinical informatics - Training and education requirements - General healthcare providers - Informatics specialists - Strategies for health IT training - Continuing professional development and continuing education

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