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.”

• Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3
• CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release date

Contact CEOD@bmhcc.org if you have any questions about claiming credit.