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 Clinical Informatics Board Review Book is Now Available
It’s finally here. After nine months of outlines, writing, editing, graphic design, formatting and more writing, we’re proud to announce Clinical Informatics Board Review: Pass the Exam the First Time is now available. Over the course of 300 pages, we’ll cover everything you need to know to pass your board exam. From SQL […]
Flash Cards for the Clinical Informatics Board Exam
The Clinical Informatics Exam is fast approaching (some of you may have even already taken it). If you’re anything like us, you’re probably either freaking out or are super calm. But no matter what your state, flashcards can help you find out your weak areas. So… we created a few (84 of them, to be […]
Understanding the Clinical Informatics Core Content
The Clinical Informatics Core Content is the material every physician seeking a board subspecialty certification in clinical informatics must know and understand to pass the certification exam. Who Wrote the Core Content? There were two MDs, three PhDs, and two Masters degree recipients that developed the core content for the clinical informatics subspecialty board. Three of […]
Infographic: The Rise of Clinical Informatics
Clinical informatics is growing at an explosive rate. But don’t just take our word for it. We’ve found some great information during our research time in clinical informatics and decided to put some of the most intriguing data into a handy infographic for you. It covers some growth statistics for clinical informatics, timelines, subspecialty information, […]
The CMIO List: Where to Find Them, Resources For Them, and a Suggested Reading List
We’ve seen some recent queries in our analytics looking for where to find CMIOs. In this post, we’ll address this request. In particular, we’ll tell you where to find CMIOs on the great equalizer – i.e the internet – and where to find them in real life (conferences & events). We’ll also suggest some resources CMIOs may find […]
Clinical Informatics: A Presentation on What It Is, Why It Is Important, and How YOU Can Get Started In It
Rather than boring you with another article, we’ve decided to switch it up today and give you an introductory presentation to clinical informatics. In the presentation we’ll discuss what clinical informatics is, why the field is about to blow up, and how to get started on becoming a clinical informaticist. So check out our presentation: […]
All About Change Management in Clinical Informatics…..Plus a Bonus Freebie to Get You Started
If you’re looking to take the clinical informatics board exam, you’re going to have to know about change management in two different ways. The first in the leadership/expectation management of large-scale organizational change and the second in the way of managing changes as a part of project management. We’re going to deal with the latter […]
Recommended Reading for the Clinical Informaticist
Some of you may have already seen our post on the reference materials for the clinical informatics board exam, which outlines all the books mentioned in the “core content” for the CI subspecialty and their respective links. So if you’ve already seen this post, you’re probably wondering why we would include yet another reading list for you. Well, […]
Winning the Firefight: A Sample Project Management Dashboard Template
If you’re like most CMIOs, managers, and leaders in your organization, you’re likely responsible for a number of initiatives you have going on. However, if you’re also like many managers and leaders you probably deal with issues and problems in an ad-hoc manner and spend your time putting out fires more often than you’d like […]