Also called: CMIO, Clinical Informatics Physician
A physician who leads how a health system uses electronic records, data, and AI.
Splits time between seeing patients and leading tech projects: deciding which AI tools doctors can trust, fixing annoying electronic health record workflows, and translating between doctors and IT engineers.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Professional degree (MD, JD, DVM…), about 13 years after high school. Medical degree plus clinical informatics fellowship or board certification.
Ways in: Professional school, Certification. Training cost: Over $150k.
Majors to look at: Pre-Medicine, Computer Science, Health Informatics.
Growing faster than average. Growing with health AI adoption.
Low risk for 10 years. Deciding which AI tools doctors can safely trust is itself the job; it grows as AI spreads in care.
Classes: AP Biology, AP Computer Science Principles, AP Chemistry.
Official data: O*NET occupation 11-3021.
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