In health IT, the legal and regulatory framework often affects our ability to implement clinical information systems in an optimal way. Sometimes we feel a step behind with compliance to ICD-10, meaningful use stages, ACA, PQRS, HIPAA, HITECH, and others. Understandably. Rushed schedules, constant meetings, and other activities that use up all of our thinking power […]
Practice Question of the Week: Clinical Research
A couple of weeks ago in our practice question of the week, we discussed Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). In this week’s post we’ll be discussing a question along the same lines as EBM– clinical research. In particular we’ll be reviewing the phases of clinical research. To review, Clinical Research determines the safety and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals, medical […]
Practice Question of the Week: Economics of Health Care Delivery
The health system is a significant part of the exam. It covers everything from public health and clinical research, policy and HIPAA, healthcare quality and data flows, and health economics and financing. In this week’s question of the week, we’ll discuss the economics of health care delivery and how it effects the cost of health […]
3 Reasons Why You Should Become an Associate CMIO
As the Chief Medical Information Officer role has grown in popularity and in workload, there’s a new role shifting and growing in the background of health care organizations everywhere. What role is that? The role of associate CMIO. The role of associate CMIO is kind of like a CMIO, but without a lot of the drawbacks […]
Clinical Informatics Exam Question of the Week: EBM
In this week’s practice question, we cover the levels in evidence based medicine. This topic is important because ideally, every physician should make decisions based on the most-current and best research available. But combing through thousands of studies, trials, and analyses is problematic. Rather, to integrate the newest guidelines and recommendations, we can use Clinical Decision Support Systems. Clinical […]
A Brief History of Clinical Informatics
While the clinical informatics subspecialty is a newcomer to the medical specialty arena, it’s introduction has been a long time in the making. The recording of healthcare data has been around since Hippocrates first developed the medical record in the fifth century. Since then, records have evolved from tablets and paper ledgers to the Electronic Health Records […]
Clinical Informatics Exam Question of the Week: Definition of Informatics
Welcome to our weekly clinical informatics practice question. We’ll be publishing this weekly, all the way up until the next clinical informatics exam so you can enter your exam confident and prepared. This week’s question deals with the topic of the definition of informatics. This topic may seem simple, even boring if you’ve been in […]
The Clinical Informatics Board Review Book is Now Available
It’s finally here. After nine months of outlines, writing, editing, graphic design, formatting and more writing, we’re proud to announce Clinical Informatics Board Review: Pass the Exam the First Time is now available. Over the course of 300 pages, we’ll cover everything you need to know to pass your board exam. From SQL […]
The Basics of Healthcare Economics for the Clinical Informatics Exam
Health economics and financing is a topic within the fundamentals of the clinical informatics core content. In particular it falls within the sub-topic of “The Health System”. As a physician, why should you care about health care economics? You probably understand the basics of economics like supply and deman, so why should health care be different? In […]
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Started in the Clinical Informatics Subspecialty
In this post, we’ll introduce you to the clinical informatics subspecialty, what becoming a board-certified clinical informaticist can do for you, and how you can go about getting this second board certification. We’ll cover the following three topic areas: What Clinical Informatics Is and Why You Need to Get Into It Applying for the Exam The […]
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