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Hospital Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) have begun to create a new executive hospital
position called the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Physicians rarely serve in this
capacity, although they continue to be well entrenched as directors of departmental
systems. Physicians and particularly pathologists would be well qualified to serve
as the Chief Medical Information Officer in hospitals with responsibility for utilization
review, medical records, and quality assurance. It is evisioned that such a position
would be part-time, with the individual continuing to practice in a medical specialty
within a department.
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