CPHIMS case studies
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CPHIMS - the Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems - is a professional credential administered by HIMSS for people who manage, implement, or optimize information and management systems in healthcare settings. It sits alongside HIMSS's other certifications; HIMSS describes a community of 2,500+ certified professionals across its three credentials. The credential is aimed at practitioners rather than specialists in a single technology. Typical candidates are analysts, project and program managers, informatics nurses and pharmacists, IT directors, consultants, and vendor staff whose work requires them to move between clinical operations and systems decisions. The CPHIMS case studies are 5 cases and about 3,683 words.
1The After-Visit Summary That Only Speaks English
You are the informatics lead at a 46-bed critical access hospital whose emergency department handles 22,000 visits a year. About 31% of ED patients prefer a language other than English, chiefly Spanish.
718 words, about 4 min2A Warm Standby That Has Never Been Warm
You are the infrastructure lead for a three-hospital system. The EHR runs in a single primary data center; a warm standby 40 miles away replicates asynchronously with an observed 6- to 12-minute lag and has never been activated in production.
727 words, about 4 min3412,000 Alerts and a Petition to Turn Them Off
You are the clinical informatics pharmacist for a 500-bed academic medical center. Last year the EHR fired 412,000 medication-related alerts and the overall override rate was 91%.
702 words, about 4 min4Inheriting a BCMA Program at 60% Spend and 30% Live
You have just been named CIO of a three-hospital system, inheriting an enterprise bar-code medication administration program. It is 22 months into an approved 30-month schedule and 60% through its $9M budget.
765 words, about 4 min5Proxy Access, a 16-Year-Old, and a Waiting Room
You are the informatics director for a pediatric ambulatory network. The patient portal grants parents full proxy access to their children's records by default and does not change until the patient turns 18.
771 words, about 4 min