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Highlights doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001667 Lucila Ohno-Machado, Editor in chief Just 10 years ago ‘informatics’ was a rela- while also integrating articles that provider order entry (see page 305), and tively unknown concept to the healthcare support some foundations for these areas. Carroll describes results of a clinical trial and biomedical science communities. This issue starts with Payne discussing of an informatics intervention to screen Over the past years, the field expanded health IT and economics (see page 212), for maternal depression (see page 311). significantly and informatics became not Strasberg discussing some of the chal- Mainous reports the impact of CDS on only well known, but also an integral lenges of making targeted information antibiotic prescribing (see page 317), and part of daily business in these communi- available at the point of care (see Torsvik compares visualization techniques ties. Accordingly, JAMIA has been con- page 218), and Friedman providing a per- for laboratory results (see page 325). tinuously expanding the informatics spective on what informatics is and is not Modeling temporal relationships and pyramid of published work, from the (see page 224). In our section ‘Focus on extracting information from narrative text foundational work upon which import- health information technology ’, Vest dis- have always been a challenge to CDS. ant applications are built (such as new cusses changes in the electronic health Hanauer proposes an approach for algorithms and innovative approaches), record (EHR) market given health IT modeling these temporal relationships all the way to illustrative experiences of certification and meaningful use (see (see page 332). Natural language process- system implementations that have gener- page 227), Harle describes the characteris- ing approaches are used by Carrell and alizable lessons and randomized trials of tics of hospitals that successfully Quinn to support sharing of de-identified informatics interventions. responded to meaningful use requirements clinical text and to determine cancer types Practitioners suggest that JAMIA (see page 233), and Hernández-Ávila in clinical records, respectively (see pages should publish a larger number of applied evaluates the process of designing and 342, 349). Jindal utilizes natural language articles that describe the design, imple- implementing an EHR system for a public processing to resolve coreferences in bio- mentation, or evaluation of systems. health system (see page 238). Once medical text (see page 356). Wliczynski Academics suggest that JAMIA should deployed, there are marked differences in evaluates the robustness of MEDLINE publish a larger quantity of foundational EHR use and satisfaction, as well as clinical queries, which help users retrieve research reports. Defining the boundary patient outcomes. Keenan and Hoonakker answers to their clinical questions from can be challenging; what some consider describe the challenges from the perspec- the biomedical literature (see page 363). applied work may be considered some- tive of nurses and other clinicians (see In ‘Brief communications’, de Bruin what theoretical by others. Whether pages 245, 252). Hilligoss describes the describes a CDS for surveillance of there is a dividing line between theory impact of EHR on admission handoffs in ICU-acquired infections (see page 369), and practice of informatics and where an emergency department (see page 260), and Ríos-Bedoya reports on the effects of this line would sit does not really matter Tundia describes effects on outpatient pre- using text messaging to screen for alcohol (hence our section ‘Research and applica- ventive care (see page 268), and Czaja use among adolescents (see page 373). In tions’). What matters is that our current reports on factors that determine ‘Case reports’, Martin shares generalizable and future readers get value for the time healthcare consumers’ use of e-health lessons learned while customizing a com- they spend reading the articles or information sources (see page 277). The mercial EHR CDS module (see page 377), abstracts, that informatics becomes even underlying infrastructure to achieve high and Sánchez-Mendiola reports on the better known outside its own commu- utilization of EHR resources is critically implementation of biomedical informatics nity, and that the dissemination of infor- important: Malin describes a practical education for medical students (see page mation afforded by this journal translates approach to link medical records scattered 381). Finally, Kawamoto systematically into developments that positively impact in different locations (see page 285). reviews the literature on CDS for healthcare and accelerate biomedical Zunner describes a semi-automated genetically-guided personalized medicine science. In JAMIA, articles from any tier approach to map laboratory concepts (see page 388). of the pyramid are judged by their into LOINC (see page 293), and As this issue illustrates, the field of quality and innovation, and not by the Sánchez-de-Madariaga proposes a markup biomedical informatics is diverse, theoretical or applied nature of the work. language to facilitate data extraction from complex, and exciting. We strive to make This issue of the journal reinforces the EHRs (see page 298). JAMIA work for a diverse, highly point that the journal welcomes diverse EHR systems can help clinicians do a demanding readership. Your suggestions kinds of work; we focus on applications better job. In our section ‘Focus on clinical and feedback are important so that the of health information technology (IT) decision support’, Adelman reports on a premier informatics journal continues to and clinical decision support (CDS), clinical trial evaluating computerized work for you. J Am Med Inform Assoc March 2013 Vol 20 No 2 211
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association – Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 1, 2013
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