Clinical Informatics
ME 530M.1
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This rotation is designed for students who want practical experience at the intersection of clinical care, data, digital health, and policy. Clinical Informatics is now recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties as a medical subspecialty, and physicians across all ABMS specialties are eligible to pursue board certification. Our elective provides an accessible and applied introduction to the field, with direct exposure to how clinical information systems are designed, governed, implemented, evaluated, and improved in real clinical environments. You will join a faculty mentored special project with a clear deliverable, tailored to your interests and skills. Projects span research, implementation, evaluation, and policy focused work, and frequently involve collaboration with local and national leaders. Current project and research areas include the following.
1. Learning health systems and communities of practice - Work on methods and digital platforms that help clinicians and patients adopt evidence based best practices at scale, including collaborative pathway development and virtual clinical decision making communities.
2 Patient and caregiver facing digital health tools - Contribute to patient centered platforms that extend care beyond the hospital, support engagement at home, and strengthen communication and coordination for complex care needs across families and care teams.
3 - Data platforms for longitudinal and multimodal care -Explore models for integrating EHR data with labs, imaging, wearables, and patient reported outcomes across institutions to enable personalized, longitudinal care.
4 - Responsible healthcare AI and evaluation in real settings - Participate in projects that assess value, safety, transparency, and governance for clinical AI, including patient centered approaches and pragmatic evaluation strategies.
5 - Machine learning and open science using EHR data - Engage with work that translates modern computer science techniques to direct patient care, including approaches that advance reproducibility through open data and shared code.
6 - Interoperability and standards based clinical decision support - Develop or evaluate FHIR enabled tools that support interoperability and scalable clinical decision support.
7 - Clinical systems engineering, risk, and decision analysis - Apply systems modeling and simulation to understand risk, performance, and outcomes in complex sociotechnical clinical systems.
8 - Computational biology and clinical analytics - Join projects that combine computational methods with high throughput genomics and large scale clinical data analytics.
9 - Imaging and emergency medicine informatics - Work on informatics innovation in radiology and emergency care, including workflow optimization, safety, and operationally integrated information technology solutions.
About the Division: The Division of Clinical Informatics is a research division within the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and has been at the forefront of clinical computing for decades. The elective is intended to be hands on and career relevant, whether you are exploring informatics as a future pathway or want to bring informatics methods into any specialty.
Enrollment and contact: Enrollment is subject to pre approval by the course director, Dr. Yuri Quintana. To request consideration, please email yquintan@bidmc.harvard.edu with your CV and a brief statement of your interests, including any relevant experience in clinical research, quality improvement, programming, data science, design, or policy.
Not Available for Cross Registration
