Cincinnati’s UC Health system has picked a Cleveland Clinic executive to become its first chief medical information officer and mold its emerging health IT infrastructure.
Dr. Anil Jain has spent the last six years running Cleveland Clinic’s eResearch program, a informatics consulting service for clinical trials around medical devices and pharmaceuticals. He has also been developing health IT strategies around meaningful use and in 2007 was named director of research and quality informatics.
UC Health includes Cincinnati systems including University Hospital, West Chester Hospital and Drake Center, as well as the UC Physicians practice group. The organization wants Jain to build a strategy that links the system’s emerging health IT program with what’s “best for the delivery of the highest quality patient care,” according to a release.
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He will be the champion for the implementation and integration of all new clinical information systems and ensure the effective use of those systems, especially the Epic electronic medical record (EMR). Dr. Jain will also educate clinicians regarding the critical contributions that the EMR will make to patient care and to their individual practices. He will drive exceptional quality of care, utilizing technology both to examine care processes and improve efficiencies. As an essential member of the senior management team, Dr. Jain will also be responsible for training physicians on Epic and engaging key stakeholders to participate in the design and roll-out of Epic and any future IT projects.
The CMIO position is an increasingly popular one, driven by the idea that a physician can better focus health IT efforts on delivering care to patients.
