Visualization of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics Publications over the Last 25 Years

Yergens, Dean; Tam-Tham, H.; Minty, Evan

doi:10.15265/iys-2016-s003

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“…Other keywords emerged in one publication (e.g., "prediction" and "algorithm") [35], which aligned with "smart care" in our framework-based analysis. This time period has been seen as the maturity period of medical informatics [164]; however, HI publications in 2000-2009 were mainly aligned with the MOH's first two levels, which may indicate that this period was an infancy stage in Saudi Arabia.…”

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Health informatics publication trends in Saudi Arabia: a bibliometric analysis over the last twenty-four years

Binkheder

Aldekhyyel

Almulhem

2021

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Objective: Understanding health informatics (HI) publication trends in Saudi Arabia may serve as a framework for future research efforts and contribute toward meeting national “e-Health” goals. The authors’ intention was to understand the state of the HI field in Saudi Arabia by exploring publication trends and their alignment with national goals.Methods: A scoping review was performed to identify HI publications from Saudi Arabia in PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science. We analyzed publication trends based on topics, keywords, and how they align with the Ministry of Health’s (MOH’s) “digital health journey” framework.Results: The total number of publications included was 242. We found 1 (0.4%) publication in 1995–1999, 11 (4.5%) publications in 2000–2009, and 230 (95.0%) publications in 2010–2019. We categorized publications into 3 main HI fields and 4 subfields: 73.1% (n=177) of publications were in clinical informatics (85.1%, n=151 medical informatics; 5.6%, n=10 pharmacy informatics; 6.8%, n=12 nursing informatics; 2.3%, n=4 dental informatics); 22.3% (n=54) were in consumer health informatics; and 4.5% (n=11) were in public health informatics. The most common keyword was “medical informatics” (21.5%, n=52). MOH framework–based analysis showed that most publications were categorized as “digitally enabled care” and “digital health foundations.”Conclusions:The years of 2000–2009 may be seen as an infancy stage of the HI field in Saudi Arabia. Exploring how the Saudi Arabian MOH’s e-Health initiatives may influence research is valuable for advancing the field. Data exchange and interoperability, artificial intelligence, and intelligent health enterprises might be future research directions in Saudi Arabia.

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Health informatics publication trends in Saudi Arabia: a bibliometric analysis over the last twenty-four years

Binkheder

Aldekhyyel

Almulhem

2021

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“…In all disciplines there is a certain inertia in keeping to well-established research areas (for major research areas in medical informatics see e.g. [ 11 , 12 ]) to persist, even as they suffer from diminishing impact. Likewise, there is frequently a tendency for researchers of a discipline to hold on to well-known research methodologies or technologies rather than adopting new methodological or technical approaches that may contribute more effectively to research outcomes and advance collective and interdisciplinary understanding (see e.g.…”

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Research Strategies for Biomedical and Health Informatics

Haux¹,

Kulikowski²,

Bakken³

et al. 2017

Methods Inf Med

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SummaryBackgroundMedical 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.ObjectivesTo 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?MethodsOutstanding 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.ResultsA 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.ConclusionsThe 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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“…New methodologies and technologies are being implemented in these vast and expanding fields [2], with articles on a wide range of related topics having been published. Information on which topics are the most interesting for authors is important to understanding the past and preparing for the future; therefore, it is interesting to survey the published literature.…”

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“…Medical informatics incorporates a core set of methodologies and technologies that are applied to the management of data, information, and knowledge at multiple levels, including molecular, tissue, patient, and population levels [ 1 ]. New methodologies and technologies are being implemented in these vast and expanding fields [ 2 ], with articles on a wide range of related topics having been published. Information on which topics are the most interesting for authors is important to understanding the past and preparing for the future; therefore, it is interesting to survey the published literature.…”

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“…Yergens et al [ 2 ] reviewed the yearbooks published by the International Medical Informatics Association on medical informatics globally between 1992 and 2015, dividing references into three time periods. They found that the publications were more technical and method-oriented between 1992 and 1999, more clinical and patient-oriented between 2000 and 2009, and more focused on the emergence of big data, decision support, and global health between 2010 and 2015.…”

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2016 Year-in-Review of Clinical and Consumer Informatics: Analysis and Visualization of Keywords and Topics

Park

Lee

et al. 2017

Healthc Inform Res

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ObjectivesThe objective of this study was to review and visualize the medical informatics field over the previous 12 months according to the frequencies of keywords and topics in papers published in the top four journals in the field and in Healthcare Informatics Research (HIR), an official journal of the Korean Society of Medical Informatics.MethodsA six-person team conducted an extensive review of the literature on clinical and consumer informatics. The literature was searched using keywords employed in the American Medical Informatics Association year-in-review process and organized into 14 topics used in that process. Data were analyzed using word clouds, social network analysis, and association rules.ResultsThe literature search yielded 370 references and 1,123 unique keywords. ‘Electronic Health Record’ (EHR) (78.6%) was the most frequently appearing keyword in the articles published in the five studied journals, followed by ‘telemedicine’ (2.1%). EHR (37.6%) was also the most frequently studied topic area, followed by clinical informatics (12.0%). However, ‘telemedicine’ (17.0%) was the most frequently appearing keyword in articles published in HIR, followed by ‘telecommunications’ (4.5%). Telemedicine (47.1%) was the most frequently studied topic area, followed by EHR (14.7%).ConclusionsThe study findings reflect the Korean government's efforts to introduce telemedicine into the Korean healthcare system and reactions to this from the stakeholders associated with telemedicine.

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Visualization of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics Publications over the Last 25 Years

Cited by 5 publications

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Health informatics publication trends in Saudi Arabia: a bibliometric analysis over the last twenty-four years

Health informatics publication trends in Saudi Arabia: a bibliometric analysis over the last twenty-four years

Research Strategies for Biomedical and Health Informatics

2016 Year-in-Review of Clinical and Consumer Informatics: Analysis and Visualization of Keywords and Topics

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