Ramping up to leadership CMIOs' profile keeps growing. CMIOs take on new responsibilities as patient care organizations move through the quality journey.

As physician informaticists rise into CMIO titles, the CMIO role itself is gradually being transformed, particularly in more advanced patient care organizations, from its early "tech-head doc" function to a management role focused on implementation, to increasingly, a transformational leadership role. CMIOs and industry experts agree that the skills needed to help lead change on a broad scale are pushing medical informaticists to new levels of professional development.