This week’s question deals with the Institute of Medicine’s Quality Aims from “Crossing the Quality Chasm.” The IOM’s quality aims serve as a base for many topics in clinical informatics. You’ll find they influence topics including metrics for quality reporting and improvement, regulations like ACA, patient satisfaction rates, and others. And of course, since they’re […]
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 […]