Sophia Kotliar on Blogger: The Role of Clinical Informatics in Modern Health Care

Sunday, October 6, 2019

The Role of Clinical Informatics in Modern Health Care

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As laboratory medical director at Ocean Medical Center - Hackensack Meridian Health, Sophia Kotliar led a team effort to implement a whole health system electronic record called EPIC, which is a leading health care information system (HIS) in the United States. Sophia Kotliar considers medical clinical informatics vital in her profession.

Clinical informatics promotes the understanding, application, and integration of information technology in the medical and health care industry. Clinical informatics professionals, also known as clinical informaticians, help transform the health care arena by analyzing, evaluating, designing, and implementing advanced and technology-based information and communication systems that are meant to improve practitioner-patient relationships and overall patient care.

Through advanced information and communications technology (ICT), information such as laboratory results reach their intended recipients more quickly and accurately. As a result, no time or resources are wasted for the exchange and delivery of information. Furthermore, clinical informatics also allows for the effective and efficient sharing of knowledge between practitioners, providers, and patients. Because of this, the chain of care is strengthened and made more efficient.

About Sophia Kotliar

An accomplished medical professional, Dr. Sophia Kotliar brings more than two decades of medical and clinical informatics experience to her position as a pathologist and point-of-care medical director at Bayhealth Medical Center in Dover, Delaware. In this leadership role, she draws upon an extensive background in clinical pathology as well as a deep familiarity with the EPIC electronic health record (EHR) protocol. Since joining Bayhealth, Sophia Kotliar, MD, has received intra-company honors for her role in expanding implementation of the EPIC EHR across the center's medical system.

Prior to her current position with Bayhealth, Dr. Sophia Kotliar gained experience as an independent clinical pathologist at numerous medical institutions in Delaware, including Crozer Keystone Medical Center, Union Hospital, and Wilmington VA Medical Center. She also served as medical director of the clinical laboratory at St. Francis Hospital from 2008 to 2011.

Dr. Sophia Kotliar graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers University before going on to earn her medical degree at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. In addition to fellowships in surgical pathology and cytopathology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, she has completed advanced training in medical informatics through Oregon Health & Science University.