So, thinking about taking the clinical informatics board exam? Here are a list of topics that may be covered in the board exam. As you can tell, the exam covers many topics ranging from project management and clinical decision systems, to network architecture and data interoperability.
Background on Informatics
- Informatics History
- The Healthcare system
- Legal and Regulatory Issues
- Informatics Ethics
- Improving Healthcare Quality through Informatics
Project Management
- Change Management
- Communications Management
- Strategic Planning
- Team building
- Organizational Behavior
- Budgeting and Resource Allocation
- Quality Management
Clinical Informatics Systems
Types of Systems
- Clinical Decision-Making
- Applied Decision-Support
- Evidence-Based Medicine
System Analysis
- Selecting Clinical Systems
- Clinical Systems Evaluation
- Clinical Systems Sustainment
- Clinical Workflow Analysis
Regulation & Best Practices
- Meaningful Use
- Knowledge Acquisition, Storage, and Appropriate Use
- Information Retrieval
- How to use and re-use Healthcare Data
Integrating Clinical Systems
- Clinical System Architecture & Infrastructure
- Data Interoperability
- Getting your Systems Talking
Technical Topics
- Systems Design
- Network Architecture
- Databases
- Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Data Standards
- Securing the Network
- Software Development Life Cycles and Methods
- Programming
- User Experience and Design
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