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Tracing persistent highly visible research themes in medical informatics
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| Title: | Tracing persistent highly visible research themes in medical informatics |
| Authors: | McCain, Katherine W.
Silverstein, Scot M. |
| Issue Date: | 17-Apr-2007 |
| Publisher: | Drexel University. College of Information Science and Technology. |
| Series/Report no.: | IST Research Day 2007 posters |
| Abstract: | The research presented in this poster examines trends in the field of Medical Informatics
through its published literature. We focus on the twelve years since the debut of Journal
of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)—1994-2005. The goal is to
identify topics that have persisted in the MI literature and those that are underrepresented
or missing, although called for in critical appraisals of the field. Two groups
of topics predominate. Many of these topics are of high visibility in both the clinical and
consumer literature—CPOE (Computerized Practitioner Order Entry), medical error
prevention and cost issues are examples. Other topics such as clinical classifications and
vocabularies and medical decision analysis are of significant interest to both MI
professionals and clinicians. Some themes that, in our experience, are of growing interest
to healthcare informaticians were not visible. These include ethics and legal issues in
medical informatics, information technology & health professions education, and
telemedicine and social informatics, most especially, sociotechnical issues related to
clinical information technology (see
http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/medinfo.htm). The absence of these
topics represents a gap in research and authorship in areas important to the success of
health informatics initiatives, especially national EMR initiatives such as have been
initiated in the US and the UK supporting culture change and more effective, evidencebased
practice. This suggests that medical informatics research and training, while
facilitating the improvement of healthcare, may itself benefit from an evaluation of these
themes. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1860/1594 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Day Posters (IST)
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