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American Board of Pathology cosponsors clinical informatics certification
The American Board of Medical Specialties will administer its first examination for certification in clinical informatics next month. The certificate is jointly sponsored by the American Board of Pathology and American Board of Preventive Medicine.
To qualify for the initial certification exam, for which the deadline has passed, applicants had to meet experience-related criteria, including being a licensed physician certified by an ABMS member board and devoting the equivalent of three years to the practice of clinical informatics during the five years prior to applying for the exam, or have completed an acceptable fellowship program of a predetermined duration.
The American Board of Medical Specialties includes 24 medical boards and oversees physician certification in more than 150 specialties and subspecialties.
Information about future certification exams is available on the American Board of Pathology Web site, www.abpath.org, or ABMS Web site, www.abms.org.
Sunquest Information Systems becomes member of CommonWell Health Alliance
Sunquest Information Systems recently joined the CommonWell Health Alliance, an independent, nonprofit organization that supports and promotes the exchange of health care data across disparate technologies.
Other members of the alliance include All-scripts, Athenahealth, Cerner, Greenway Medical Technologies, McKesson, and RelayHealth.
The alliance is focused on achieving data liquid ity between systems, in compliance with patient authorizations.
Sunquest Information Systems, 520-570-2000
Contracts
McKesson Business Performance Services has announced that it will provide a full range of revenue cycle management capabilities to the Puget Sound Institute of Pathology, Seattle. McKesson will also assist Puget Sound with stra tegic planning.
McKesson Business Performance Services, 404-338-6000
Union Hospital, Elkton, Md., has selected the NovoPath anatomic pathology system to man age its AP lab workflow, as well as its communications with in-house referring physicians and the outreach market.
[hr]Dr. Aller is director of informatics and clinical professor in the Department of Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He can be reached at raller@usc.edu. Hal Weiner is president of Weiner Consulting Services, LLC, Florence, Ore. He can be reached at hal@weinerconsulting.com.