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((For|the literary movement|Informationist poetry))
((Distinguish|Information scientist))
((more citations needed|date=December 2009))

An '''informationist''' (or ''information specialist in context'') provides research and [[knowledge management]] services in the context of clinical care or [[biomedical research]].

Although there is no one educational pathway or formalized set of skills or knowledge for informationists, one way to think of the informationist is as one who possesses the knowledge and skill of a medical librarian with extensive research specialization and  some formal clinical or [[public health]] education that goes beyond on-the-job osmosis.

Medical librarians and other biomedical professional organizations have been exploring the possibilities for evaluating how informationists are being used and whether their activities supplement or replace [[medical library]] activity.

More generally, an informationist is a professional who works with information within a particular business, analytic or scientific context to drive toward outcomes based on evidence, analysis, prediction and execution. For example, an extension of the term is increasingly emerging in financial services, life sciences and health care industries. Though still nascently in use, its adoption applies to individuals with extensive industry expertise, acute familiarity with organizational structures and processes, deep domain level information mastery and information systems technical savvy. Informationists in this context support transformational initiatives within and across functional areas of an enterprise as architects, governance experts, continuous improvement advocates and strategists.

==Background==
The term was proposed in 2000 by Davidoff & Florance.<ref name=Davidoff>Davidoff F., Florance V. "The informationist: A new health profession?", ''[[Annals of Internal Medicine]]''. 2000; 132(12): 996-998. ((doi|10.7326/0003-4819-132-12-200006200-00012))</ref>  Their editorial suggested that physicians should be delegating their information needs to informationists, just as they currently order [[Computed tomography|CT scans]] from radiologists or cardiac catheterizations from cardiologists. They conceived of an [[information professional]] who was embedded in (and indeed, supported by) the clinical departments.

Supporters of the concept see it as a means for librarians to reinvigorate connections with the faculty/clinicians, as well as provide superior service by dint of informationists' biomedical training. Critics complained that the idea is nothing new; librarians already provide in-depth, high quality information services and clinical medical librarians have been working alongside physicians, nurses and other clinicians for years.<ref name="chopped liver">Kronenfeld M. 2000. "'The Informationist: a New Health Profession?' So What Are We? Chopped Liver?" ''National Network'', [[Medical Library Association]] (Dallas, Tex.). [http://www.hls.mlanet.org/NatNet/issues/v25n2.pdf 25, no. 2.] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821123232/http://www.hls.mlanet.org/NatNet/issues/v25n2.pdf |date=2008-08-21 ))</ref>

Large informationist programs in the U.S. exist at the [[National Institutes of Health]] and at [[Vanderbilt University]]. Welch Medical Library at [[Johns Hopkins University]] (JHU) is developing an informationist [[service model]] in which its 10 clinical and public health librarians are moving from serving as liaison librarians for assigned departments toward becoming embedded informationists within their departments.<ref>((cite web |title=Services |url=https://welch.jhmi.edu/services |website=Johns Hopkins University and Medicine |access-date=25 June 2023))</ref>

To prepare for the embedded informationist role, librarians are undertaking education as needed to supplement their backgrounds. For example, librarians bring experience in clinical behavior counseling, public health, nursing, and more. Informationist training can then focus upon filling gaps in [[Research|research methods]] knowledge more so than on gaining additional knowledge in the librarian's area of expertise. Courses, seminars and workshops being undertaken include those covering systematic reviews, [[evidence-based medicine]], critical appraisal, medical language, anatomy and physiology, biostatistics, and clinical research.

The term informationist is related to that of informatician—also informaticist—and many informationists do possess skills in clinical topics, bioinformatics, and [[biomedical informatics]]. [[Harvard University]], the [[University of Pittsburgh]], and [[Washington University in St. Louis]] are examples of institutional libraries which have hired PhD-level  scientists (who may or may not have library degrees) to provide informatics support for biomedical research.

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Grefsheim SF, Whitmore SC, Rapp BA, Rankin JA, Robison RR, Canto CC. The informationist: Building evidence for an emerging health profession. ''J Med Libr Assoc''. 2010; 98(2):147-156. ((doi|10.3163/1536-5050.98.2.007))
* Rankin JA, Grefsheim SF, Canto CC. The emerging informationist specialty: A systematic review of the literature. ''J Med Libr Assoc''. 2008; 96(3):194-206. ((doi|10.3163/1536-5050.96.3.005))
* Whitmore SC, Grefsheim SF, Rankin JA. Informationist programme in support of biomedical research: A programme description and preliminary findings of an evaluation. ''Health Info Libr J''. 2008; 25(2):135-141. ((doi|10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00756.x))

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