Conference presentation
Tracing persistent highly visible research themes in medical informatics
Drexel University. College of Information Science and Technology. Research Day Posters.
03 Jul 2007
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.
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- Title
- Tracing persistent highly visible research themes in medical informatics
- Creators
- Katherine Wootton McCain (Author) - Drexel University (1970-)Scot M. Silverstein (Author) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Publication Details
- Drexel University. College of Information Science and Technology. Research Day Posters.
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- DU; College of Information Science and Technology (1995-2013)
- Identifiers
- 991014632337304721