Dr. Jake Lancaster is the Chief Medical Information Officer
(CMIO) for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation and Chief Medical Officer
for the Baptist Medical Group. He also continues to practice as a part-time internist for the Baptist Medical Group (BMG).
Dr. Lancaster completed his undergraduate degree in physics
at the University of Mississippi and Sally McDonald Barksdale Honors College,
where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He earned his medical
degree at the University of Mississippi, where he served as student body
president and was inducted into the medical honor society Alpha Omega Alpha. He
then went on to complete an internal medicine residency at the University of
Alabama at Birmingham, where he simultaneously completed a Master of Science in
Healthcare Administration from the UAB School of Health Related Professions.
After residency, he pursued a fellowship in the field of
Clinical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and earned an
additional Master’s degree in Applied Clinical Informatics from Vanderbilt
University. After completing fellowship, he went on to be the Chief Medical
Information Officer at West Tennessee Healthcare in Jackson, TN, where he practiced
as an outpatient internal medicine physician and hospitalist.
He is board certified in internal medicine through the
American Board of Internal Medicine and clinical informatics through the
American Board of Preventive Medicine. He is a member of the American College
of Physicians and the American Medical Informatics Association. He is also a
Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association and the author of the
book “The Matter of Medicine.”
Contact CEOD@bmhcc.org if you have any questions about claiming credit.
