Understanding the Clinical Informatics Core Content

Who Wrote the Core Content?

• Reed M. Gardner, PhD - Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, Past President and Board Member of AMIA
• J. Marc Overhage, PhD, MD - Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, Adjunct Associate Professor at IUPUI
• Elain B. Steen, MA - Senior Education Consultant with AMIA
• Benson S. Munger, PhD -Former Executive Director of the American Board of Emergency Medicine, ABMS Member Board Consultant
• John H. Holmes, PhD -Interim Director, Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics
• Jeffrey Williamson, M.Ed -Vice President of Education and Academic Affairs of AMIA
• Don E. Detmer, M.D., M.A. - Professor Emeritus and Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia and Visiting Professor at CHIME, University College of London

 What Is the Basic Clinical Informatics Core Content?

1. FundamentalsClinical InformaticsThe Health System
2. Clinical Informatics
3. The Health System
4. Clinical Decision Making and Care Process ImprovementClinical Decision MakingEvidence Based MedicineClinical Workflow Analysis, Re-design, & Quality Improvement
5. Clinical Decision Making
6. Evidence Based Medicine
7. Clinical Workflow Analysis, Re-design, & Quality Improvement
8. Health Information SystemsIT SystemsHuman Factors EngineeringHealth Information SystemsClinical Data StandardsInformation System Lifecycle
9. IT Systems
10. Human Factors Engineering
11. Health Information Systems
12. Clinical Data Standards
13. Information System Lifecycle
14. Leading and Managing ChangeLeadership Models, Practices, and ProcessesEffective Interdisciplinary TeamsEffective CommunicationsProject ManagementStrategic and Financial Planning for Clinical Information SystemsChange Management
15. Leadership Models, Practices, and Processes
16. Effective Interdisciplinary Teams
17. Effective Communications
18. Project Management
19. Strategic and Financial Planning for Clinical Information Systems
20. Change Management

What Will You Learn From This Content?

Leading and Managing Change

• Understanding you don't have to have VP or Director in your title to be a leader (Leadership Models, Practices, and Processes)
• Why meetings should contain 5 or 7 individuals (Effective Interdisciplinary Teams)
• Why group presentations should always be practiced (Effective Interdisciplinary Teams)
• How to manage a project to stay on scope, on budget, and on time (Project Management)
• The strategic plan is the most important document in your organization (Strategic and Financial Planning for CIS)
• Communication is one of the best change management strategies (Change Management)

Health Information Systems

• The basics of "hard" IT (networking, security, programming, SDLC, etc.)
• What makes a systems usable (Human-Computer Interaction)
• How systems are able to talk to one another (Clinical Data Standards)
• What you need to know before you implement another clinical information system (Information System Lifecycle)

Clinical Decision Making and Care Process Improvement 

• How to define and improve upon existing workflows in the clinical environment
• How to understand what clinical information systems are capable of achieving as well as what their current limitations are
• How to bring IT and clinicians together to make better decisions using objective and subjective measures

Fundamentals 

Additional Resources

AMIA Board White Paper

The ABPM Study Guide