Clinical Informatics Certification Exam Prep

Clinical Informatics: A Presentation on What It Is, Why It Is Important, and How YOU Can Get Started In It

08/22/2014 by Corinn Pope

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: […]

The CMIO Quick Start Guide: What is a CMIO?

08/19/2014 by Corinn Pope

The CMIO Quick Start Guide is a series of posts on the role that the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) plays within an organization. As the number of healthcare organizations pondering the addition of a CMIO to their staff increases, it’s vital that every organization understand the benefits of hiring a CMIO, what they’ll actually do once they’re hired, and how you […]

All About Change Management in Clinical Informatics…..Plus a Bonus Freebie to Get You Started

08/07/2014 by Corinn Pope

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 […]

Winning the Firefight: A Sample Project Management Dashboard Template

07/22/2014 by Corinn Pope

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 […]

Don’t Lose It All. 3 Non-Negotiable Security Measures for your Clinical Info Systems

07/14/2014 by Corinn Pope

Health data breaches = Lost $$$, lost patient data, government scrutiny, lost patient and public trust, HIPAA fines, pain, stress, and lots of should haves, could haves, and would haves. Save yourself the pain and implement at least the three following security measures in your organization. Firewalls Firewalls control incoming and outgoing traffic based on an applied […]

ELI5: Network Topologies

06/24/2014 by Corinn Pope

In this Explain it Like I’m 5 (ELI5) series, we’ll discuss network topologies. A topic you’ll need to understand for the clinical informatics board exam. For other posts like this one, be sure to check out other ELI5 posts like the ones listed at the bottom of this article. Network topologies are how elements within […]

ELI5: Health Level 7 (HL7) Standards

05/22/2014 by Corinn Pope

HL7 International is an ANSI accredited standards development organization focused on electronic health information. However, you’ll often hear people referring to HL7 not as the organization itself, but as the standards it produces. Here, we’ll refer to HL7 as the outputs and standards produced by the Health Level Seven International organization, rather than the organization […]

Testing: What you Need to Know Before Your Next CIS Implementation

05/14/2014 by Corinn Pope

Ah, testing. It’s something you know you have to do, but not something you know a whole lot about, besides that it fixes things and prevents bad things from happening. We want to give you a little more information on testing so the next time you head into an IT meeting, you can understand some […]

Today’s Quick Refresher: Ethical Concepts and Theories in Health Informatics

05/01/2014 by Corinn Pope

One topic covered in the informatics subspecialty exam is the area of ethical concepts and theories. Considering we haven’t really read up on theories and concepts like these since undergrad, we decided to do a short little refresher with some terms as well as clinical applications. Enjoy! Ethical Concepts Ethical concepts are abstract thoughts and ideas […]