Join the October #AASchat on Tuesday, October 30th beginning at 8:00pm Eastern I probably should have said “No” to writing this blog post. I said yes, because I thought it would be easy. I’ll cut to the chase. My main failing at saying “No” is that, like most surgeons, I think I can just squeeze […]
What is Clinical Informatics?
What is informatics? When I use that word to describe my research, people have asked “Isn’t that just statistics?” Or, “Oh, that’s all the computers and big data stuff, right?” Clinicians may recognize informatics as anything related to the electronic health record (EHR). My Dad explained to my mother that it meant I was, “Crazy […]