Clinical Quality Informatics
The department of Clinical Quality Informatics (CQI) plays an important role in improving the quality of patient care and safety by standardizing best practices, reducing unnecessary variation and decreasing medication errors. Our goal is to close the loop between requirements, recommendations and care provided through appropriate use of system applications.
CQI is made up of three essential teams who train and support physicians, mid-level providers and medical students at our facilities:
- Clinical Informatics Specialists – clinical team members work closely with medical staff and multidisciplinary teams to design, test and implement specialty-specific evidence-based order sets and the computer applications used by providers;
- Clinician Support Specialists – team members act as liaisons to specialty providers ensuring their success in working with our clinical information systems;
- Ambulatory Support Specialists – team members act as liaisons to hospital-owned physician network practices to support the ambulatory electronic medical record (EMR).
Prisma Health–Midlands offers a variety of clinical applications, including: