Emerging Insights of Health Informatics Research: A Literature Analysis for Outlining New Themes

Abstract

This paper presents a contemporary literature review to provide insights into the current health informatics literature. The objective of this study is to identify emerging directions of current health informatics research from the latest and existing studies in the health informatics domain. We analyse existing health informatics studies using a thematic analysis, so that justified sets of research agenda can be outlined on the basis of these findings. We selected articles that are published in the science direct online database. The selected 73 sample articles (published from 2014 to 2018 in premier health informatics journals) are considered as representative samples of health informatics studies. The analysis revealed ten topic areas and themes that would be of paramount importance for researchers and practitioners to follow. The findings provide an important foundational understanding for new health informatics studies.

The Evolving Nature of Information Systems Controls in Healthcare Organisations

“…The niche nature of the blood bank industry resulted in the market acting as an input control mechanism (Ouchi, 1979(Ouchi, , 1980 during the pre-implementation phase. While there exist a lot of capacity in the health informatics sector in general (Miah, Shen, Lamp, Kerr, & Gammack, 2019), few IT vendors possess the appropriate capabilities and skills to fully support the evolving needs of the blood banks (Li et al, 2007). For this reason, all three instances of preimplementation are marked by limited options available to NBPS due to a niche market (Olsen & Saetre, 2007), as opposed to the general health informatics market where many solutions are available for hospital and clinical management.…”

A Post Publication Review of "Emerging Insights of Health Informatics Research: A Literature Analysis for Outlining New Themes"

“…The prime author of the review study (Miah et al 2019) entirely agree to the Blockchain based new technological prospects in improving healthcare information services. The heath informatics field will be enriched in particular for the solution design arena, what was suggested.…”

“…That is, we identify topics which are absent in the study, but we use the authors' themes to do so. We hope that this contributes towards achieving the authors' aim to "determine underlying technological developments and their target application areas" (Miah et al, 2019).…”

“…The reviewed article is a sound contribution to the literature on information systems (IS), adding timely insights into the current state of health informatics guided by a pressing research question: "What are the current research themes in the existing health informatics studies that show promise for future knowledge growth?" Miah et al (2019) adopted a thematic analysis approach for analysing and classifying the existing literature to summarise new insights that may have future research value. It extends previous health informatics publications in this journal (Burmeister, Islam, Dayhew, & Crichton, 2015;Carlson, Farrelly, Frazer, & Borthwick, 2015;Poulsen, 2018;Simpson, Nevile, & Burmeister, 2003) and other IS journals .…”

“…Overall, the systematic review by Miah et al (2019) provides invaluable insights into the current state of health informatics by using a systematic methodology and thematic analysis. Here, we have shared the reader and researcher perspective, identifying a few absent health informatics topics and complementing the findings by identifying them here using the authors' themes.…”