Thinking of applying for or starting an ACGME Certified Fellowship in Clinical Informatics? Understanding the requirements and expectations can be a bit overwhelming at first, so we’ve decided to break it down for you in a easier to understand format. In this article, we’ll cover: How ACGME defines clinical informatics The basic (mostly administrative) requirements […]
Practice Question of the Week: Medical Decision Making
In this week’s practice question, we cover decision making – or more specifically the nature and cognitive aspects of human decision making. Yes – this is a real section in the core content under “Clinical Decision Making and Care Process Improvement” and you will be tested on it. So what exactly is the nature of […]
Clinical Informatics Practice Questions Now Available
We’re pleased to announce that our first round of practice questions for the clinical informatics subspecialty board exam is now available. Each of the 50 new questions reviews your knowledge of a specific clinical informatics topic and offers an explanation of the concept and/or answer. Questions are presented in a multiple choice format – similar to what you’ll find […]
The 4 Types of CMIOs
The Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) is a dynamic position that almost every type of health IT company needs. Whether it’s a fledgling startup or a multi-national billion dollar corporation, CMIOs bridge the gap between the clinical and non-clinical. What kind of organization they work for can determine a lot about their expectations, working conditions, and how […]
Practice Question of the Week: The Regulatory Framework
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: 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 […]
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