A network of academic researchers who focus on the comparative effectiveness of electronic health records has formalized its efforts and will recruit other researchers and chief medical information officers to join the effort.
Led by its executive director, Dean Sittig, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics in Houston, the nonprofit Clinical Informatics Research Collaborative (Circle) is a network of applied clinical informatics researchers working on issues involved in the design, development, implementation, use and evaluation of health information technology, with an emphasis on EHRs. “We are interested in how we are going to make progress in EHR design in coming years,” Sittig said.
