Clinical Services

Clinical Informatics Committee 

The Clinical Informatics committee encourages clinical decision support, analyzes mobile health, data analytics, and healthcare innovation. It also leads multiple initiatives that leverage information technology to provide decision support for the frontline clinicians to ensure patient safety, optimizes clinical workflow to increase work efficiency, enhances usability of the electronic health record system to reduce screen time, and make innovations to improve care quality and patient experience. Examples of recent committee projects include Clinical pathways, EPIC physician builder, and the consulting pager project.

Clinical Informatics leader Dr. Cheng-Kai Kao, is the course instructor of clinical informatics at Pritzker School of Medicine and Graham school master program of biomedical informatics in University of Chicago. Dr. Kao also serves as the medical director in the office of international programs at University of Chicago Medicine. He oversees the clinical course of international patients from all over the world, optimizes their care quality and patient experience, promotes the knowledge transfer service, and fosters collaboration with overseas academic medical centers and healthcare organizations.

Chairs

Cheng Kai Kao, MD