Professor Carl Seashore, MD, and assistant professor Mike Phillips, MD, are the first two UNC Children’s physicians to become board certified in clinical informatics.
Professor Carl Seashore, MD, and assistant professor Mike Phillips, MD, are the first two UNC Children’s physicians to become board certified in clinical informatics. Board certification in clinical informatics requires additional training and assessment as a subspecialty of the American Board of Preventive Medicine.
Physicians who practice clinical informatics collaborate with other health care and information technology professionals to analyze, design, implement and evaluate information and communication systems that enhance individual and population health outcomes, improve patient care and strengthen the clinician–patient relationship. Clinical informaticians use their knowledge of patient care combined with their understanding of informatics concepts, methods and tools to: assess information and knowledge needs of health care professionals and patients; characterize, evaluate and refine clinical processes; develop, implement procurement, customization, development, implementation, management, evaluation and continuous improvement of clinical information systems.