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A Quick Breakdown of the Newest Informatics Certification: AHIC

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TLDR: Advanced Healthcare Informatics Certification (AHIC) is a new certification from AMIA designed for health professionals with a doctoral degree in informatics OR health professionals with a master’s degree or higher in a primary health field and a master’s degree in informatics. Everyone looking to sit for the exam must also have experience in informatics. AHIC is similar to the […]

Resources for Quickly Learning About Markov Decision Processes

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How well do you know your Markov Decision Process and Markov Chains? Because they are topics you will come across on the clinical informatics subspecialty exam. To better prepare you, we were thinking of putting together a big blog post discussing the topic but quickly realized that there are a lot of resources out there that can […]

What Does the “Average” CMIO Look Like?

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So this week we came across an interesting slide deck from Gartner on the CMIO role. They’ve been doing this report regularly over the last few years and the manner in which the CMIO role has evolved is very interesting. Many of the themes have remained the same over the course of the survey. These themes includes topics such […]

Informatics Question of the Week: Test Characteristics

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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

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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

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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

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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: HITECH

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The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, also known as the economic stimulus package) of 2009 and has substantially impacted the clinical informatics field. The discipline of clinical informatics has played a crucial role in healthcare, individual health, public health as […]

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