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    MS 186 Guide to the Nursing Informatics Project Papers ( 1962-2012)

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    Nursing Informatics Project papers contains books, pamphlets, brochures, and manuals detailing nursing informatics from 1962-2012 totaling 267 items. One linear foot of vertical files containing articles, SCAME 1981 NIH Conference notes, and documents about the history of early software for nursing education. Materials collected, preserved, and create as part of the American Medical Informatics Association Nursing Informatics History Project. See more at MS 186

    Integrated Personal Health Records: Transformative Tools for Consumer-Centric Care

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    <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Integrated personal health records (PHRs) offer significant potential to stimulate transformational changes in health care delivery and self-care by patients. In 2006, an invitational roundtable sponsored by Kaiser Permanente Institute, the American Medical Informatics Association, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality was held to identify the transformative potential of PHRs, as well as barriers to realizing this potential and a framework for action to move them closer to the health care mainstream. This paper highlights and builds on the insights shared during the roundtable.</p> <p>Discussion</p> <p>While there is a spectrum of dominant PHR models, (standalone, tethered, integrated), the authors state that only the integrated model has true transformative potential to strengthen consumers' ability to manage their own health care. Integrated PHRs improve the quality, completeness, depth, and accessibility of health information provided by patients; enable facile communication between patients and providers; provide access to health knowledge for patients; ensure portability of medical records and other personal health information; and incorporate auto-population of content. Numerous factors impede widespread adoption of integrated PHRs: obstacles in the health care system/culture; issues of consumer confidence and trust; lack of technical standards for interoperability; lack of HIT infrastructure; the digital divide; uncertain value realization/ROI; and uncertain market demand. Recent efforts have led to progress on standards for integrated PHRs, and government agencies and private companies are offering different models to consumers, but substantial obstacles remain to be addressed. Immediate steps to advance integrated PHRs should include sharing existing knowledge and expanding knowledge about them, building on existing efforts, and continuing dialogue among public and private sector stakeholders.</p> <p>Summary</p> <p>Integrated PHRs promote active, ongoing patient collaboration in care delivery and decision making. With some exceptions, however, the integrated PHR model is still a theoretical framework for consumer-centric health care. The authors pose questions that need to be answered so that the field can move forward to realize the potential of integrated PHRs. How can integrated PHRs be moved from concept to practical application? Would a coordinating body expedite this progress? How can existing initiatives and policy levers serve as catalysts to advance integrated PHRs?</p

    Publication trends in the medical informatics literature: 20 years of "Medical Informatics" in MeSH

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    <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The purpose of this study is to identify publication output, and research areas, as well as descriptively and quantitatively characterize the field of medical informatics through publication trend analysis over a twenty year period (1987–2006).</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>A bibliometric analysis of medical informatics citations indexed in Medline was performed using publication trends, journal frequency, impact factors, MeSH term frequencies and characteristics of citations.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>There were 77,023 medical informatics articles published during this 20 year period in 4,644 unique journals. The average annual article publication growth rate was 12%. The 50 identified medical informatics MeSH terms are rarely assigned together to the same document and are almost exclusively paired with a non-medical informatics MeSH term, suggesting a strong interdisciplinary trend. Trends in citations, journals, and MeSH categories of medical informatics output for the 20-year period are summarized. Average impact factor scores and weighted average impact factor scores increased over the 20-year period with two notable growth periods.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>There is a steadily growing presence and increasing visibility of medical informatics literature over the years. Patterns in research output that seem to characterize the historic trends and current components of the field of medical informatics suggest it may be a maturing discipline, and highlight specific journals in which the medical informatics literature appears most frequently, including general medical journals as well as informatics-specific journals.</p

    AMIA 99 Annual Symposium: Transforming Health Care Through Informatics. Cornerstones for a New Information Management Paradigm.

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    This symposium was held in Washington, DC in November 1999.The AMIA Annual Symposium program emphasizes an integrated view of informatics and is organized around four cornerstone areas: Representing Knowledge, Acquiring and Presenting Data, Managing Change, and Integrating Information

    Capturing the Clinical Encounter. 1995 Spring Congress. Preliminary Program.

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    The AMIA 1995 Spring Congress was held in Cambridge Massachusetts on June 25-28, 1995. It was jointly sponsored with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.The objectives of the Congress were to increase awareness of the importance and benefits of capturing data; to provide a forum to present new research in methods of data capture and storage; to promote collaboration among attendees; and to educate attendees about the capture, storage, and use of clinical data.Brigham and Women's Hospital; Hewlett Packard; and Kaiser Permanente

    Towards Cost-Effective Clinical Computing. Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. Preliminary Program.

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    The Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care was held in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 28-November 1, 1995. Jointly sponspored with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.This conference was intended for people who have an interest in clinical data acquisition, decision support, and evaluation for improving the value of the electronic medical record and the quality of health care

    Personal Health Records among institutions, medical records, and patient wisdom. A socio-technical approach

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    Personal Health Records (PHRs), patient-controlled information systems, are believed to be a key to transform healthcare. We argue that a single system, no matter how it is designed, is highly unlikely to have the power to reconfigure a whole sectors. PHRs are not merely technical objects that exist on their own but they should be considered as socio-technical arrangements of systems and users situated and adapted to the specific context of use. We argue that the design process should follow an analysis of this context with particular regard to healthcare system and local health institutions, e-health infrastructures and the strategies used by laypeople to manage their health. Our reflections are the result of our experience in a research/innovation project aimed at prototyping and testing a PHR for the whole population of an Italian region
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