Biomedical Informatics Publications: a Global Perspective

Maojo, Víctor; García-Remesal, Miguel; Bielza, Concha; Crespo, José; Pérez-Rey, David; Kulikowski, Casimir A.

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“…Another lesson learned was the fact that the majority of Methods' first authors have European affiliations albeit the journal having the aim of being international with official affiliations to the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) and the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS). This has already been discussed by Maojo et al [14] when analyzing biomedical informatics journal publications from 2008 -2010 and will be discussed further by the core editorial team.…”

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Guiding Methods of Information in Medicine into the Next Generation: Welcome Note from the New Editor-in-Chief

Koch

2016

Methods Inf Med

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Guiding Methods of Information in Medicine into the Next Generation: Welcome Note from the New Editor-in-Chief

Koch

2016

Methods Inf Med

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“…In addition to the one discussion paper this topic was also raised in [41] and [42]. Other, more general and comprehensive reflections could be found on informatics approaches for health care systems and its services (e.g., [43], [44], [45]), on new approaches for patient records (e.g., [46], [47], [48], [49]) and coding systems for diagnoses (e.g., [50]), and on knowledge-based decision support for diagnosis and therapy (e.g., [51], [52], [53]).…”

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From Bed to Bench: Bridging from Informatics Practice to Theory

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Lehmann

2014

Appl Clin Inform

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SummaryBackground: In 2009, Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI) -focused on applications in clinical informatics -was launched as a companion journal to Methods of Information in Medicine (MIM). Both journals are official journals of the International Medical Informatics Association. Objectives: To explore which congruencies and interdependencies exist in publications from theory to practice and from practice to theory and to determine existing gaps. Major topics discussed in ACI and MIM were analyzed. We explored if the intention of publishing companion journals to provide an information bridge from informatics theory to informatics practice and vice versa could be supported by this model. In this manuscript we will report on congruencies and interdependences from practice to theory and on major topics in MIM. Methods: Retrospective, prolective observational study on recent publications of ACI and MIM. All publications of the years 2012 and 2013 were indexed and analyzed. Results: Hundred and ninety-six publications were analyzed (ACI 87, MIM 109). In MIM publications, modelling aspects as well as methodological and evaluation approaches for the analysis of data, information, and knowledge in biomedicine and health care were frequently raised -and often discussed from an interdisciplinary point of view. Important themes were ambient-assisted living, anatomic spatial relations, biomedical informatics as scientific discipline, boosting, coding, computerized physician order entry, data analysis, grid and cloud computing, health care systems and services, health-enabling technologies, health information search, health information systems, imaging, knowledge-based decision support, patient records, signal analysis, and web science. Congruencies between journals could be found in themes, but with a different focus on content. Interdependencies from practice to theory, found in these publications, were only limited. Conclusions: Bridging from informatics theory to practice and vice versa remains a major component of successful research and practice as well as a major challenge.

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“…Through its international and national associations (as, e.g., documented in [7,8]), and through its scientific conferences, jour nals and periodicals (e.g. [9]) researchers have been communicating their research results and contributing to scientific progress for more than five decades. By hopefully maintaining high scientific and ethical standards in research and in reviewing and selecting research papers for publication, they thereby share new knowledge, mainly by presenting original research articles and systematic reviews on a wide range of research topics.…”

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2017

Methods Inf Med

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SummaryBackground: Medical informatics, or biomedical and health informatics (BMHI), has become an established scientific discipline. In all such disciplines there is a certain inertia to persist in focusing on well-established research areas and to hold on to well-known research methodologies rather than adopting new ones, which may be more appropriate. Objectives:To search for answers to the following questions: What are research fields in informatics, which are not being currently adequately addressed, and which methodological approaches might be insufficiently used? Do we know about reasons? What could be consequences of change for research and for education? Methods: Outstanding informatics scientists were invited to three panel sessions on this topic in leading international conferences (MIE 2015, Medinfo 2015, HEC 2016 in order to get their answers to these questions. Results:A variety of themes emerged in the set of answers provided by the panellists. Some panellists took the theoretical foundations of the field for granted, while several questioned whether the field was actually grounded in a strong theoretical foundation. Panellists proposed a range of suggestions for new or improved approaches, methodologies, and techniques to enhance the BMHI research agenda. Conclusions:The field of BMHI is on the one hand maturing as an academic community and intellectual endeavour. On the other hand vendor-supplied solutions may be too readily and uncritically accepted in health care practice. There is a high chance that BMHI will continue to flourish as an important discipline; its innovative interventions might then reach the original objectives of advancing science and improving health care outcomes.

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Biomedical Informatics Publications: a Global Perspective

Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

Guiding Methods of Information in Medicine into the Next Generation: Welcome Note from the New Editor-in-Chief

Guiding Methods of Information in Medicine into the Next Generation: Welcome Note from the New Editor-in-Chief

From Bed to Bench: Bridging from Informatics Practice to Theory

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