Nominations open for Top 25 Clinical Informaticists

Modern Healthcare is now accepting nominations for this year's roster of the Top 25 Clinical Informaticists. The biennial awards program recognizes medical professionals who excel at using patient-care data to improve the clinical and financial performance of their healthcare organizations.

Nominations are welcome from all sectors of the industry. Among the titles of these medical professionals are chief medical information or informatics officer; chief health information or informatics officer; director of clinical information or informatics; and medical director of information or informatics systems. The program is not limited to those titles.

To be eligible, nominees must have successfully used patient-care data to improve his or her organization's clinical and financial performance; demonstrated a willingness to share expertise with others in the field of clinical informatics; and assumed a leadership position in clinical informatics outside of the candidate's own organization or company. A review board comprising the senior editors at Modern Healthcare will select the honorees based on those criteria.

Please visit modernhealthcare.com/clinicalinformatics to send a nomination. After completing the online form, instructions will be provided on support materials that must be submitted. The deadline for all nominations is Aug. 15.

The Top 25 Clinical Informaticists will be profiled in the Nov. 3 issue of Modern Healthcare and online at ModernHealthcare.com.