As I actively put off board studying for the morning, I wanted to take a moment to pat myself on the back while I sit in my office on my fourth full day as an attending. Or more specifically “Assistant Professor/Clinical”. It has been a full 15 years since I graduated high school to makeContinue reading “I finally made it!”
Author Archives: Ashley Windham, DO
Data Sharing
One of the biggest challenges of this fellowship has been obtaining data. Being an informatics fellow, data is quite essential to my training. This problem is not unique to me, my current institution or healthcare in general. And it brings me to my next blog topic – data sharing. What is data sharing and whyContinue reading “Data Sharing”
My Big Data Failure
As I was thinking about posts to write, I became disappointed about a lost opportunity for a topic due to a personal failure. But then I realized that this failure is as much apart of my journey as my successes. A few months ago, I received a notification that there would be an analytics caseContinue reading “My Big Data Failure”
Data Viz
If I were to think about Clinical Informatics as dessert, data analytics would be the cake and data visualization would be the icing on top. During the first semester of my master’s program, I was enrolled in an entire class dedicated to learning data visualization. In addition to learning all of the different ways toContinue reading “Data Viz”
Attending ASCP Annual Meeting 2021
We attended the ASCP Annual Meeting in Boston this year to present some of our projects. I have listed the links to the abstracts below and can also be found on my projects page. Adherence to Choosing Wisely Campaign Guidelines at Three Health Systems Multi-Health System Comparison of Outpatient Diagnostic Testing for Urinary Tract InfectionContinue reading “Attending ASCP Annual Meeting 2021”
Data Analytics
As a part of my training, I have enrolled in a master’s course at the local university, UTSA. The program is the Master of Data Analytics or MSDA. I have completed three semesters of course work that have included learning statistical methods using primarily R, python and SAS. I wasn’t quite sure what I wasContinue reading “Data Analytics”
What is Clinical Informatics?
There are many great definitions of clinical informatics. I think my favorite is the one given by AMA as a description of the subspecialty- “Clinical informatics is a subspecialty that transforms health care by analyzing, designing, implementing, and evaluating information and communication systems to improve patient care, enhance access to care, advance individual and populationContinue reading “What is Clinical Informatics?”
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