Chief Medical Informatics Officer [CMIO]

Chief Medical Informatics Officer [CMIO] is required by hospitals to complement the CIO for EHR implementation and to build the strategic IT Roadmap to support business growth. Usually the CIO comes from a non-Healthcare background and has a steep learning curve about the hospital's dynamic workflows. Whereas the CMIO should come with unique set of cross-over skills that forms a bridge between Physicians, IT and Business.


I see this as a big gap in the current hospital setup everywhere. As the Healthcare-IT product implementations increase the CMIO role will become more critical. The era of developing an HIS/EMR Application for hospitals is over. Now its all about configuring, implementing and adapting pre-developed HIS, EHR or HIE products.