TY - JOUR
T1 - The emerging role of clinical informatics fellows in service learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
AU - Subash, Meera
AU - Sakumoto, Matthew
AU - Bass, Jeremy
AU - Hong, Peter
AU - Muniyappa, Anoop
AU - Pierce, Logan
AU - Purmal, Colin
AU - Ramaswamy, Priya
AU - Sono, Reiri
AU - Uptegraft, Colby
AU - Feinstein, David
AU - Khanna, Raman
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: [email protected].
PY - 2021/3/1
Y1 - 2021/3/1
N2 - Objective: The study sought to describe the contributions of clinical informatics (CI) fellows to their institutions' coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) response. Materials and Methods: We designed a survey to capture key domains of health informatics and perceptions regarding fellows' application of their CI skills. We also conducted detailed interviews with select fellows and described their specific projects in a brief case series. Results: Forty-one of the 99 CI fellows responded to our survey. Seventy-five percent agreed that they were "able to apply clinical informatics training and interest to the COVID-19 response."The most common project types were telemedicine (63%), reporting and analytics (49%), and electronic health record builds and governance (32%). Telehealth projects included training providers on existing telehealth tools, building entirely new virtual clinics for video triage of COVID-19 patients, and pioneering workflows and implementation of brand-new emergency department and inpatient video visit types. Analytics projects included reports and dashboards for institutional leadership, as well as developing digital contact tracing tools. For electronic health record builds, fellows directly contributed to note templates with embedded screening and testing guidance, adding COVID-19 tests to order sets, and validating clinical triage workflows. Discussion: Fellows were engaged in projects that span the breadth of the CI specialty and were able to make system-wide contributions in line with their educational milestones. Conclusions: CI fellows contributed meaningfully and rapidly to their institutions' response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
AB - Objective: The study sought to describe the contributions of clinical informatics (CI) fellows to their institutions' coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) response. Materials and Methods: We designed a survey to capture key domains of health informatics and perceptions regarding fellows' application of their CI skills. We also conducted detailed interviews with select fellows and described their specific projects in a brief case series. Results: Forty-one of the 99 CI fellows responded to our survey. Seventy-five percent agreed that they were "able to apply clinical informatics training and interest to the COVID-19 response."The most common project types were telemedicine (63%), reporting and analytics (49%), and electronic health record builds and governance (32%). Telehealth projects included training providers on existing telehealth tools, building entirely new virtual clinics for video triage of COVID-19 patients, and pioneering workflows and implementation of brand-new emergency department and inpatient video visit types. Analytics projects included reports and dashboards for institutional leadership, as well as developing digital contact tracing tools. For electronic health record builds, fellows directly contributed to note templates with embedded screening and testing guidance, adding COVID-19 tests to order sets, and validating clinical triage workflows. Discussion: Fellows were engaged in projects that span the breadth of the CI specialty and were able to make system-wide contributions in line with their educational milestones. Conclusions: CI fellows contributed meaningfully and rapidly to their institutions' response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
KW - clinical informatics
KW - graduate medical education
KW - medical informatics
KW - questionnaires and surveys
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U2 - 10.1093/jamia/ocaa241
DO - 10.1093/jamia/ocaa241
M3 - Article
C2 - 33164076
AN - SCOPUS:85102658116
SN - 1067-5027
VL - 28
SP - 487
EP - 493
JO - Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
JF - Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
IS - 3
ER -