Selected to the Informatics All-Star Team!

This past week I was awarded with a gratifying honor. I was named by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of the Top 25 Clinical Informaticists in the US. I am truly honored to be among this group, which I view as a kind of all-star team for clinical informatics. I am also grateful to OHSU student Paul DeMuro who nominated me for the honor.

Unfortunately, the article describing the awardees in detail is password-protected. However, the list of the 25 awardees and a brief statement about them, including me, is freely accessible.

A big part of this honor has to do with the fact that I am, as the magazine notes, the only full-time educator among the 25. (There are a few other academics, such as Blackford Middleton and Chris Longhurst.) I am delighted that the award committee chose to recognize the value of informatics education as an important part of clinical informatics.

This is actually not my only recent appearance on a "top" list. A blog called HealthTechTopia named me among the Top 10 Most Influential Informatics Professors.

What Others in the Community are Saying About the ONC HIT Workforce Program

Some articles by Joe Conn of Modern Healthcare on the ONC Workforce Development Program:

• 50,000 new health IT workers might be needed
• Working on IT

There has also been a press release and more detailed information from AMIA on the breadth of its member involvement in all of the ONC funded programs.