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Biomedical Informatics’ Students, Alumni Among First to Attain National Board Certification
Students and alumni from the NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Biomedical Informatics Program are among the first group of physicians in the nation to become board certified in clinical informatics. The inaugural clinical informatics subspecialty board exams administered by the American Board of Preventive Medicine were held in October 2013.
Jacques Orces, D.O. (’96), who passed the clinical informatics board exam in December, is currently a student in the Biomedical Informatics Program and serves as the chief medical informatics officer and a pediatrician at Miami Children’s Hospital. Danielle Oryn, D.O., M.P.H. (’02), chief medical informatics officer at Petaluma Health Center in California, received a graduate certificate in medical informatics. James Seltzer, D.O., M.S.B.I., clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, is a 2011 M.S.B.I. graduate.
Of the 432 physicians who passed the board exam, only 12 were osteopathic physicians. The newly established subspecialty in medicine has been in the works since 2005, when the American Medical Informatics Association recognized the growing demand for physicians with formal training in this rapidly advancing field.
Physicians who practice clinical informatics use their knowledge of patient care combined with their understanding of informatics concepts, methods, and tools in order to analyze, design, implement, and evaluate information and communication systems that promote safer, more efficient, increasingly effective, timely, patient-centered, and equitable care.
