In last week’s question, we chatted about clinical guidelines and algorithms. In this week’s question, we’ll be heading in a completely different direction – telecommunication and Metcalfe’s Law. Telecommunication is communication across a distance using technology – usually via electrical signals or electromagnetic waves. Telecommunications allows us to participate in our favorite lazy leisure activities such […]

In last week’s practice question, we covered the Process of Knowledge Transformation and how we take Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and transform it into something clinical decision support systems can use. In this week’s post we’ll be applying last week’s focus on EBM to the point of care – in the form of clinical guidelines and algorithms. In the larger […]

This week’s practice question covers the topic of cost effectiveness in healthcare. Why cover cost effectiveness? Well first, cost effectiveness fits into clinical informatics as a form of clinical decision support. More specifically, it falls under the category of “decision science” in the clinical informatics core content and is therefore on the exam—-so you should know […]

In this week’s practice question, we cover decision making – or more specifically the nature and cognitive aspects of human decision making. Yes – this is a real section in the core content under “Clinical Decision Making and Care Process Improvement” and you will be tested on it. So what exactly is the nature of […]