Welcome to the Division of Clinical Informatics at BIDMC
The Division of Clinical Informatics (DCI), created in 1970 by Dr. Howard Bleich and Dr. Warner Slack, was among the first academic divisions in the world to concentrate on the use of computers for patient care, teaching, and medical research. The goals of the Division have been to improve the relationship between doctor and patient, enhance medical education, improve quality, and reduce costs. DCI has had three faculty members receive the prestigious Morris F. Collen Award from the American Medical Informatics Association, and four fellows elected into the American College Medical Informatics. Learn more about our history.
Current research includes the design and evaluation of clinical information systems, translational research platforms, patient portals, and patient engagement, quality improvement processes and analytics, clinical decision support systems, online learning systems, mobile health applications, global e-health applications.
The Division hosts a variety of a wide range of training programs, from internships, to fellowships, to international industrial programs. If you are a US physician, read more about the Clinical Informatics Fellowship At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Learn about DCI-developed applications.
2025 Pharmacy Clinical Informatics Internship Program
Apply by August 15, 2025! Details here.
About the DCI 2025 AI Conference
The "Signal Through The Noise: What Works, What Lasts, and What Matters In Healthcare AI" conference aims to bring together healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, ethicists, and industry leaders to explore the latest breakthroughs, challenges, and prospects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medicine. This conference aims to define what we mean by value and ROI in AI in healthcare. We aim to foster collaboration, encourage the exchange of ideas, and facilitate networking among diverse stakeholders to stimulate innovation and ensure AI's responsible and ethical integration in the medical field. The event runs Sept. 25-27, 2025 with a course day (Sept 25th) to lay foundational principles and methods, a panel day (Sept 26) to share and discuss viewpoints from thought leaders, and a workshop day (Sept 27th) to generate a focused plan for measure value and ethics in AI. 2025 DCI AI Conference - Details here
The DCI Network
The DCI Network aims to accelerate solutions to complex healthcare problems that require multi-stakeholder collaborations by creating new consortia and roadmaps to fund and implement breakthrough initiatives.
Many of today’s challenges, such as real-world evidence, distributed clinical trials, multi-institutional data Linking, and new privacy standards, will require public-private collaborations. The pandemic has shown that improvements to health care cannot move quickly without coordinated efforts. Innovations that can’t be deployed at scale are a loss to the health and business sectors. We aim to drive efficiencies in the R&D process and healthcare delivery through more integrated data sharing and multi-stakeholder collaborations.