Why should you care about clinical informatics? Because those who practice clinical informatics just may help our healthcare system get out of its funk and become an efficient, lean, and tech-savvy machine. Plus, the industry is growing and growing fast.

1. An Introduction
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Clinical
Informatics
A Presentation By:

2. What Is Clinical Informatics?
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Why You Should Get Into Clinical Informatics
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How to Get Started

3. What Is Clinical Informatics?

4. Medicine +
Technology +
Leadership
Clinical Informatics

5. Medicine
• Clinical Decision Making
• Clinical Workflows and Workflow Engineering
• Evidence Based Patient Care
• Clinical Quality Improvement

6. Technology
• Clinical Data Standards
• Human Factors Engineering
• Clinical IT Systems
• Information System Lifecycle
• Software Development, IT Architecture, Networking,
Security, and Systems Integration

7. Leadership
• Project Management
• Leading and Managing Change
• Managing the Health System
• Strategic Planning
• Communications & Managing Change

8. What Clinical Informatics is
NOT
• Only Big Data and data analysis
• Just computers and medicine
• Piecemeal of the previously listed components

9. 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.

10. Why You Should Get Into
Clinical Informatics

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

12. You'll be in high demand. According
to Deloitte, the limiting factor to
clinical informatics adoption is lack
of qualified personnel.

13. You'll learn the leadership skills
required for leadership positions
that they unfortunately never taught
in medical or graduate school.

14. You'll help transform the data your
organization already collects into a
wealth of knowledge that can be used
by your providers and researchers.

15. 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

16. How to Get Started

17. 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…

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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