An Introduction-to-

Clinical Informatics

A Presentation By:

What Is Clinical Informatics? !

Why You Should Get Into Clinical Informatics !

How to Get Started

What Is Clinical Informatics?

Medicine + Technology + Leadership

Clinical Informatics

Medicine

• Clinical Decision Making

• Clinical Workflows and Workflow Engineering

• Evidence Based Patient Care

• Clinical Quality Improvement

Technology• Clinical Data Standards

• Human Factors Engineering

• Clinical IT Systems

• Information System Lifecycle

• Software Development, IT Architecture, Networking, Security, and Systems Integration

Leadership

• Project Management

• Leading and Managing Change

• Managing the Health System

• Strategic Planning

• Communications & Managing Change

What Clinical Informatics is NOT

• Only Big Data and data analysis

• Just computers and medicine

• Piecemeal of the previously listed components

Clinical informatics is an integrated approach to improving patient care, advancing medicine, and managing the health system through the use of clinical and technical knowledge

combined with management and leadership skills.

Why You Should Get Into Clinical Informatics

You'll become an integral part of the growing medical informatics industry (which is currently worth $6.5 Billion Dollars...and growing!)

You'll be in high demand. According to Deloitte, the limiting factor to

clinical informatics adoption is lack of qualified personnel.

You'll learn the leadership skills required for leadership positions

that they unfortunately never taught in medical or graduate school.

You'll help transform the data your organization already collects into a

wealth of knowledge that can be used by your providers and researchers.

The Future of Clinical Informatics

• Clinical Informatics Fellowships becoming Accredited by ACGME

• Rise of the Clinical Informatics Subspecialty Certification by ABPM

• Increasing Amounts of Large Datasets “Big Data” in Healthcare for Research and Analysis

• Increasing Complexity of Compliance with Meaningful Use, HIPAA, ACA, and Other Regulations

How to Get Started

There are inherit complexities of running multiple clinical IT systems while complying

with regulations and making physicians happy.

So if you’re up for a challenge…

For Physicians• Begin a Clinical Informatics Fellowships (Programs

are slowly becoming Accredited by ACGME)

• Become involved in your healthcare organization by engaging with the technical leaders, becoming a clinical champion, and finding interesting research projects

• Take the Clinical Informatics Subspecialty Board Exam

For Undergrads, Grads, & Others

• Consider a graduate program in clinical or biomedical informatics

• Begin working on your own projects using open-source datasets and software analysis tools such as R, Hadoop, and others

• Become involved in your healthcare organization by engaging with the technical leaders, becoming a clinical champion, and finding interesting research projects

For Everyone

• Find ways to bridge the gap between technical disciplines in your organization and providers of care

• Get involved with the clinical informatics community by joining professional organizations, following clinical informatics blogs, attending conferences and meet up groups, and keeping up with the latest news in the industry

Head to

www.informaticspro.com

to read other resources on clinical informatics and download the first chapter of our

Clinical Informatics Study Guide: Pass the Exam the First Time