informatics officer

Chief Informatics officers help ensure that the hospital fully leverages their assests and capabilities to provide safe and high quality and cost effective care. As opposed to a chief medical information officer, the clinical informatics officer focuses on the technology itself, not necessarily the clinical dispersal of information. They also report directly to the CEO or chief information officer. They tend to be in charge of the informatics team. This is the in house EMR support that works directly with the vendors. This team can do more build to help the workflow of the different hospital areas and also troubleshoot any EMR issues. This team is in charge of the updates and upgrades that the system requires.