Clinical Informatics

08/25/2025

The Fall Semester kicks off today, marking the start of our third year in the Clinical Informatics program! We're thrilled to welcome our students and faculty to an exciting year of learning and innovation.

Advance your career in health data analytics in 2 years with an online master's degree in Clinical Informatics from the School of Graduate Studies at UMB.

04/05/2025

Clinical Informatics Program Information Session
University of Maryland

Date: Monday, May 5th
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

Please use this link to sign up for this online information session.
https://umaryland.elluciancrmrecruit.com/Apply/Events/EventDetails?eventId=0f9190e8-f90f-f011-8a52-0e0cd724b33b

We offer a 12-credit Graduate Certificate and a 34-credit Master of Science in Clinical Informatics. Complete your Graduate Certificate in 9 months of online coursework or a Master of Science in 2-3 years. Applications accepted for the Fall Semester until July 1st.

Our curriculum focuses on biomedical data, clinical process improvement, and computational systems applied to the practice of medicine. The program also covers the latest data science tools, machine learning techniques, methods for big data processing, leadership, professionalism, and ethics. Additional information about our program can be found here. https://www.michaelgrasso.com/education.htm

02/04/2025

Our first Clinical Informatics Conference for the Spring 2025 semester will be Thursday, February 6, 12p to 2pm EST.

The Clinical Informatics Conference meets on the first Thursday of each month, 12pm to 2pm, during the Fall and Spring semesters. The conference is part of the Graduate Program in Clinical Informatics through the University of Maryland School of Graduate Studies in collaboration with the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Any interested students and faculty are welcome to participate.

Zoom Meeting Link:
https://umaryland.zoom.us/j/99068962251?pwd=wccPQDGMCzbSXvbBHmp1l7PVxRReOE.1

Our guest speaker will be Randa Perkins, MD, MBA, FAMIA, who will review the following articles on clinician burnout and Chat GPT.

- Shah M, De Arrigunaga S, Forman LS, West M, Rowe SG, Mishuris RG. Cumulated time to chart closure: a novel electronic health record-derived metric associated with clinician burnout. JAMIA Open. 2024 Feb 8;7(1):ooae009. doi: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooae009. PMID: 38333109; PMCID: PMC10852987.

- Woo KC, Simon GW, Akindutire O, Aphinyanaphongs Y, Austrian JS, Kim JG, Genes N, Goldenring JA, Major VJ, Pariente CS, Pineda EG, Kang SK. Evaluation of GPT-4 ability to identify and generate patient instructions for actionable incidental radiology findings. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2024 Sep 1;31(9):1983-1993. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocae117. PMID: 38778578; PMCID: PMC11339516.

Dr. Perkins is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) and Senior Director for Clinical Informatics at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, Florida. Her work focuses on the application of information technology to improve clinical care, with a focus on usability, and research on the implementation science of healthcare IT. She is also a practicing family medicine physician in the center’s Department of Internal Medicine. In addition, she is an Associate Professor and the Interim Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program Director for the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida. Dr. Perkins received her Doctor of Medicine from Florida State University and her Master of Business Administration from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As to her policy-related efforts, she has an appointment on the Health IT Advisory Committee (HITAC) of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP)/ Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT.

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06/17/2024

Clinical Informatics Program at the University of Maryland
Information Session

Date: Wednesday, June 19th
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

We offer a 12-credit Graduate Certificate and a 34-credit Master of Science in Clinical Informatics.

Complete your Graduate Certificate in 9 months of online coursework or a Master of Science in 2-3 years.

Applications accepted for the Fall Semester until July 1st.

Register here for more information.

06/03/2024

Registration for the Fall 2024 Semester is still open.

We offer a 12-credit Graduate Certificate and a 34-credit Master of Science in Clinical Informatics. All courses are presented in a hyflex environment, allowing students to complete all requirements online.

Our programs are designed to serve a broad range of healthcare professionals, including physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, pharmacists, biologists, and computer scientists.

09/05/2023

Our next Info Session for the Graduate Program in Clinical Informatics at the University of Maryland is on September 7th from 2pm to 3pm EDT.

To learn more about the program, please sign up using the link below.

https://umaryland.elluciancrmrecruit.com/Apply/Events/EventDetails?eventId=b73fd9f2-3d1f-ee11-8a1d-0edd24c1bbab

We offer a 12-credit Graduate Certificate and a 34-credit Master of Science in Clinical Informatics. All courses are presented in a hyflex environment, allowing students to complete all requirements online. Our program was designed to serve a broad range of healthcare professionals, including physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, pharmacists, biologists, computer scientists, and others.

The program is a joint effort between the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) and the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). The core faculty are practicing physicians from the School of Medicine who are board certified in Clinical Informatics, assisted by other faculty with training in Computer Science, Data Science, and Epidemiology.

Our curriculum focuses on biomedical data, clinical processes, and computational systems, which students will apply to the practice of medicine to enhance health outcomes, improve patient care, and strengthen the clinician-patient relationship. The program also covers the latest data science tools, machine learning techniques, and methods for big data processing. Coursework also addresses leadership, professionalism, ethics, bias, and social determinants of health.

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06/27/2023

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06/23/2023

Playing in the clinical decision support sandbox: tools and training for all. Andrey Soares, Majid Afshar, Chris Moesel, Michael A Grasso, Eric Pan, Anthony Solomonides, Joshua E Richardson, Eleanor Barone, Edwin A Lomotan, Lisa M Schilling

JAMIA Open, Volume 6, Issue 2, July 2023, ooad038,

AbstractObjectives. Introduce the CDS-Sandbox, a cloud-based virtual machine created to facilitate Clinical Decision Support (CDS) developers and implementers i

05/01/2023

We've scheduled one more information session to talk about our new program in Clinical Informatics at the University of Maryland.

Graduate School - Clinical Informatics Programs Info Session
Tuesday, May 2, 2023 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

https://umaryland.elluciancrmrecruit.com/Apply/Events/EventDetails?eventId=da86b9c6-f1dd-ed11-8a17-0edd24c1bbab

We are very excited to announce a new graduate program in Clinical Informatics at the University of Maryland Baltimore, starting Fall 2023. We are offering a 12-credit Graduate Certificate and a 34-credit Master of Science. The program is presented in a hyflex environment, allowing students to complete most requirements online.

Clinical informatics is a field that applies clinical data, process improvement, and technology to the practice of medicine. The program is a joint effort between the University of Maryland Baltimore and the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The core faculty are physicians from the School of Medicine who are board certified in Clinical Informatics, assisted by other faculty with training in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, and Epidemiology.

More information about the programs.

https://graduate.umaryland.edu/clinicalinformatics/

https://graduate.umaryland.edu/ClinicalInformaticsCert/

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02/06/2023

I'm very excited to announce a new graduate program in Clinical Informatics at the University of Maryland Baltimore, starting Fall 2023. We are offering a 12-credit Graduate Certificate and a 34-credit Master of Science. The program is presented in a hyflex environment, allowing students to complete all requirements online.

The program is a joint effort between the University of Maryland Baltimore and UMBC. The core faculty are all practicing physicians from the School of Medicine who are board certified in Clinical Informatics, assisted by other faculty with training in Computer Science, Data Science, and Epidemiology. I'm the Program Director, and will be teaching some of the core courses.

More information about the program.
https://graduate.umaryland.edu/clinicalinformatics/
https://graduate.umaryland.edu/ClinicalInformaticsCert/

Follow the links below to sign up for an upcoming information session, to learn more about the program.

Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
https://umaryland.elluciancrmrecruit.com/Apply/Events/EventDetails?eventId=4d1f6346-ab71-ed11-8a0a-0a524e7b987d

Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
https://umaryland.elluciancrmrecruit.com/Apply/Events/EventDetails?eventId=61bc6b91-ab71-ed11-8a0a-0a524e7b987d

01/16/2023

Grasso MA, Rogalski A, Farrukh N, Kim Z, Nosrati B. Physician Prescribing Changes Impacted by Patient-Initiated Online Health Searches. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2021 Dec:2682-2685, doi: 10.1109/BIBM52615.2021.9669731.

Abstract: According to prior studies, that roughly one third of people search the Internet before presenting to an Emergency Department (ED) for acute care, and that 75% of those searches contain inaccurate information. Up to now, no significant studies examined the impact of these searches on the provision of patient care. We conducted an observational study to look at differences in prescribing patterns among patients who searched the Internet about an acute medical issue before presenting to the ED. Accounting for demographic differences, we found that those who searched the Internet about a specific health problem before presenting to the ED were less likely to receive a medication in general (RR 0.67), but more likely to receive an opioid medication (RR 1.56) and equally likely to receive an antibiotic (RR 1.01). This study demonstrates how the lack of credible online health information has the potential to change clinical decision making.

02/28/2022

An Open Letter Arguing for Closure of the Practice Pathway for Clinical Informatics Medical Subspecialty Certification

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