KOI Pond: The “Elevator Pitch” that Adapts to Describe the Breadth and Variety of Clinical Informatics Practice

摘要: Background The practice of clinical informatics (CI) is diverse and frequently tailored to individual skills interests or organizational/departmental needs. Prior studies have sought define core content areas, educational milestones, patterns within the subspecialty (CIS). Unfortunately, no single tool framework currently exists that can succinctly an informatician's role regardless setting. The diversity makes it difficult one “pitch” describes all possible domains, tasks, knowledge, available informatician. Objective Using qualitative data from multiple informaticians, provide a succinct describe compartmentalize various functions informatician contribute healthcare field. Methods We created iterative focus group five CIS fellows enrolled in different fellowship programs nationwide, program director, MD-PhD candidate biomedical informatics. After much discussion, iteration, consideration career options young burgeoning subspecialty, dual-axis model was terms settings (internal, external, policy) areas (knowledge, operations, innovation). Results Conclusion By combining both axes into “KOI pond” then prioritizing sections by interest/resource investment, we are able generate unique snapshot for each These snapshots be used (1) informaticians characterize their own as pitch, (2) who considering options, (3) those unfamiliar with want learn more.