Kabir Yadav, M.D.C.M., M.S., M.S.H.S., associate professor of emergency medicine at GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was named as one of the first board-certified clinical informaticians in the country.
Physicians with this new board certification work as academic faculty, as chief medical information officers in health care organizations, as program managers supporting contractors in government agencies, and with software vendors of health information technology solutions.
“With health care reform, there is a need to measure quality, as well as compliance with certain goals and objectives, to provide quality care at a reasonable cost,” says Yadav. “Quality measurements, along with the government mandate for electronic medical records to have clinical decision support, have reinforced the need for physicians who specialize in informatics.
