The Role of Clinical Informationist in Clinical Teams: Letter to Editor

Abstract

Focusing on various educational, research, and clinical roles of Clinical Informationist (CI), it is necessary to joint CIs to the clinical team as a member of patient care unit. CI can play an important role in improving medical services and community health by teaching clinical information literacy, training health information literacy to patient, and helping to search and retrieve information in research and clinical teams. It should be recommended that having such significant roles in the health care context requires CIs’ efforts to improve their skills and abilities, as well as to develop official and non-official relevant educational infrastructures in the health system of each country.

Keywords

• clinical informationist
• clinical librarian
• medical information science
• information specialists
• clinical team