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 […]
Informatics Question of the Week: Test Characteristics
Hey guys. Hope you all are surviving and enjoying the holiday season. In this week’s practice question, we’ll be covering test characteristics. Most of us are very familiar with tests, order sets, and determining which test(s) a patient needs. Today we’ll be going just a step deeper by covering characteristics of tests. A healthcare test […]
Informatics Question of the Week: Probability Theory
Hey there. We’re posting a little bit late this week due to the Holiday week. This week we’ll be reviewing some basic concepts of probability theory. Let’s say there are two events – A and B. And let’s say A and B are independent then Prob(AandB)=Prob(A)xProb(B). Example: let’s say the event A is a person […]
Informatics Question of the Week: Healthcare Quality Indicators
Hey guys. Welcome to this week’s practice question of the week. This week’s topic….healthcare quality indicators! Healthcare Quality is a measure of value of any healthcare services as evaluated by certain standards. As clinicians, our primary goal is to provide medical services of highest quality to all in need of healthcare. There are many ways […]
Informatics Question of the Week: Healthcare Economics
Welcome to this week’s practice question! Every week we discuss a topic related to healthcare informatics. This week’s topic … healthcare economics. Healthcare economics deals with economic issues related to efficiency, value and tendencies in the production and consumption of health and healthcare. Health economics studies the operation and functioning of healthcare systems as well […]
Informatics Question of the Week: Clinical Research
Hey guys, welcome to this week’s clinical informatics question of the week. This week’s topic – clinical research. Clinical research is scientific research involving humans with the goal to determine the safety and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, treatments, and diagnostic products intended for human use. Data and evidence found from clinical research trials and experiments is […]
Practice Question of the Week: Ethical Concepts in Clinical informatics
Welcome to this week’s clinical informatics practice question of the week. Many of you have already taken this year’s test (we’re sure you did amazing) and some of you are taking it in the next few days (don’t worry you’ll do great). We wish everyone the best of luck on the exam! This week, we’ll […]
Practice Question of the Week: Levels of Interoperability
Only a little bit of time left until the exam. Are you ready!?! This week’s practice question deals with the levels of interoperability for clinical information systems. It fits under the topic of “Clinical Data Standards” – a topic area that makes up a majority of the test’s questions. As I’m sure you already know, […]
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