Just a heads up — courses and quizzes will be temporarily unavailable for purchase for the next few days as we switch over some of our backend administrative systems to new ones. You’ll still be able to access any previously purchased courses as usual. If you run into any problems, let me know – just […]
Open Sourcing InformaticsPro
The time has come. We started working on InformaticsPro about 10 years ago. Since then, a lot has changed. A lot of it in the informatics world…but most of it in our personal lives. 10 years ago I was starting work on the first edition and finishing up my master’s. Now, I’m working as a […]
We Need Your Feedback! What Do You Want to Learn More About?
We’ve been running this website for a while now and still often wonder what it is you’d want to learn more about or have someone explain more about. So rather than just hoping we have a few nice people who email us spontaneously with feedback and suggestions, it’s about time we just plain ol’ asked for […]
“Tough Stuff” Quiz
Hey guys and gals. We’re pleased to announce a 50 question quiz on tough topics covered on the informatics exam is live! It’s hard. We hope you’ve studied up on your clinical decision making skills. Sample Question Here’s a sample question (answer and explanation at the end of the post): To determine the quality of life […]
Pharmacovigilence In A Nutshell
According to the WHO, pharmacovigilance is “the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug-related problem.” We usually see pharmacovigilance through one of two ways: 1.) Adverse Drug Reactions An ADR is any noxious and unintended response to a drug. When an association between an adverse […]
A Little About eMPI, Probabilistic Matching, and Deterministic Matching
In this week’s question of the week post, we’re going to briefly summarize enterprise master patient indexes. eMPIs are an alternative to using ID sets (an identifier consisting of multiple types of personal information to identify a patient) or a personal identifier (a number assigned to a patient by a health care organization) to identify a […]
How To Do a Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (plus bonus practice question)
What is FMEA? Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a process used to identify possible failures in a design, process, product, or service. It is used as a tool to document and guide design decisions for new products and processes and when changes are made to or effect those products and processes. You may also […]
The Third Edition of Our Board Review Book is Out and It is a Doozie
We’re proud to announce that the third edition of Clinical Informatics Board Review: Pass the Exam the First is now available for purchase on Amazon (paperback) and Gumroad (ebook). We’ve listened to your feedback, reviews, and comments and came back with an improved book that includes more practice questions with explanations, additional material on tougher topics like Markov […]
CI Board Review Book: Third Edition Updates
Hey guys, We’re already hard at work updating the next version of our book. We’re adding more practice questions and will be including question/answer explanations on all practice questions. We’ll also be adding new content on topics such as: LIS/LIMS and choosing the best system eMPI mHealth Interfaces Emergency preparedness MACRA Pharmacy Information Systems Markov Chains […]
A New Full-Length Clinical Informatics Exam is Now Available
We are proud to announce that a new full-length edition of our practice test for the Clinical Informatics Subspecialty Board Certification Exam is now available. You can sign up here. We’ve been working on this exam since April and we can confidently say that this is the most challenging exam we’ve written thus far and […]
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