Secondary Use of Patient Data: Review of the Literature Published in 2016

Summary Objectives: To summarize recent research and emerging trends in the area of secondary use of healthcare data, and to present the best papers published in this field, selected to appear in the 2017 edition of the IMIA Yearbook. Methods: A literature review of articles published in 2016 and related to secondary use of healthcare data was performed using two bibliographic databases. From this search, 941 papers were identified. The section editors independently reviewed the papers for relevancy and impact, resulting in a consensus list of 14 candidate best papers. External reviewers examined each of the candidate best papers and the final selection was made by the editorial board of the Yearbook. Results: From the 941 retrieved papers, the selection process resulted in four best papers. These papers discuss data quality concerns, issues in preserving privacy of patients in shared datasets, and methods of decision support when consuming large amounts of raw electronic health record (EHR) data. Conclusion: In 2016, a significant effort was put into the development of new systems which aim to avoid significant human understanding and pre-processing of healthcare data, though this is still only an emerging area of research. The value of temporal relationships between data received significant study, as did effective information sharing while preserving patient privacy.

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Will mHealth Revolutionize Health and Clinical Management and Open up New Horizons for Mental Health?

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.15265/iy-2016-046 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 25 (01) ◽

pp. 109-112

Author(s):

N. Bricon-Souf ◽

E. Conchon ◽

Keyword(s):

Clinical Management ◽

Selection Process ◽

Bibliographic Databases ◽

Computerized Provider Order Entry ◽

New Horizons ◽

Emerging Trends ◽

Order Entry Systems ◽

Source Of Information ◽

Selection Of

Summary Objectives: To summarize recent research and emerging trends in the field of Health and Clinical management and propose a selection of best papers for year 2015. Methods: A literature review has been conducted by the two section editors and computerized provider order entry systems from bibliographic databases regards to health clinical management. As a result, a list of 15 candidate papers has been elaborated and a peer-reviewed has been performed by external reviewers. A consensus meeting has been organized between the two section editors and the editorial board to conclude the selection of the 3 best papers. Results: Starting with 1803 papers published in 2015, the full selection process ended with three papers from international peer-reviewed journals for the Health and Clinical Management section. Conclusion: IoT and Cloudification have a direct impact on health and clinical management this year. Telepsychiatry benefits directly from this development and take advantages of the improvement of smart homes and of the generalization of mHealth solutions. Social networks are starting to be integrated as valuable source of information that are complementary to clinical data for reasoning-based solutions.

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Cancer Informatics in 2017: A New Beginning and a Bright Future

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1667086 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 27 (01) ◽

pp. 223-226 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jeremy Warner ◽

Debra Patt ◽

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Selection Process ◽

Research Teams ◽

Extensive Search ◽

New Beginning ◽

Significant Research ◽

Manual Review ◽

Final Selection ◽

Selection Of

Objective: To summarize significant research contributions on cancer informatics published in 2017. Methods: An extensive search using PubMed/Medline, Google Scholar, and manual review was conducted to identify the scientific contributions published in 2017 that address topics in cancer informatics. The selection process comprised three steps: (i) 15 candidate best papers were first selected by the two section editors, (ii) external reviewers from internationally renowned research teams reviewed each candidate best paper, and (iii) the final selection of three best papers was conducted by the editorial board of the Yearbook. Results: Results: The three selected best papers present studies addressing many facets of cancer informatics, with immediate applicability in the research and clinical domains. Conclusion: Cancer informatics is a broad and vigorous subfield of biomedical informatics. Strides in knowledge management, crowdsourcing, and visualization are especially notable in 2017.

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Trends and Progress in Human Factors and Organizational Issues in 2016: Learning from Experience

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.1055/s-0037-1606485 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 26 (01) ◽

pp. 92-94

Author(s):

S. Pelayo ◽

R. Santos

Keyword(s):

Human Factors ◽

Medical Informatics ◽

Selection Process ◽

Evidence Base ◽

Learning From Experience ◽

Organizational Issues ◽

Significant Research ◽

Final Selection ◽

Selection Of

Summary Objective: To summarize significant research contributions on human factors and organizational issues in medical informatics published in 2016. Methods: An extensive search using PubMed/Medline and Web of Science® was conducted to identify the scientific contributions published in 2016 that address human factors and organizational issues in medical informatics. The selection process comprised three steps: (i) 15 candidate best papers were first selected by the two section editors, (ii) external reviewers from internationally renowned research teams reviewed each candidate best paper, and (iii) the final selection of five best papers was conducted by the editorial board of the Yearbook. Results: The five selected best papers present studies with rigorous methods, properly designed and described and are, therefore, efficiently reusable for other researches. Conclusion: Human factors and ergonomics- based interventions must be tailored to the context, but meaningful ways must be simultaneously found to generate a stronger evidence base for research and to provide efficient, easy to implement, and useful methods.

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Evidence-based Biomedical Informatics

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1638831 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 22 (01) ◽

pp. 47-50

Author(s):

C. Lovis

Keyword(s):

Health Informatics ◽

Biomedical Informatics ◽

Selection Process ◽

Research Field ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Current Trends ◽

Extensive Search ◽

Final Selection ◽

Selection Of

Summary Objectives: An overview of current trends and achievements in building more evidence of using information sciences technologies in biomedical informatics. Methods: Extensive search using PubMed for published papers in this field in 2012. A selection process organized in three steps: a) identification and first selection of papers; b) international peer-review by at least 4 reviewers for each paper; c) final selection of five papers by the editorial board of the Yearbook based on the international reviewing results and a balanced coverage of the topics. Results: Synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2012 and an invited opinion paper written by leading scientists in this field. Conclusion: Evidence based health informatics is an important and ubiquitous trend in biomedical informatics. However, this research field has to be enhanced even further and, more importantly, achievements have to be put in practice.

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Cancer Informatics in 2018: The Mysteries of the Cancer Genome Continue to Unravel, Deep Learning Approaches the Clinic, and Passive Data Collection Demonstrates Utility

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.1055/s-0039-1677931 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (01) ◽

pp. 236-238

Author(s):

Jeremy L. Warner ◽

Debra Patt ◽

Keyword(s):

Cancer Genomics ◽

Selection Process ◽

Learning Approaches ◽

Research Teams ◽

Significant Research ◽

Passive Data ◽

Manual Review ◽

Final Selection ◽

Selection Of

Objective: To summarize significant research contributions on cancer informatics published in 2018. Methods: An extensive search using PubMed/Medline, Google Scholar, and manual review was conducted to identify the scientific contributions published in 2018 that address topics in cancer informatics. The selection process comprised three steps: (i) 15 candidate best papers were first selected by the two section editors, (ii) external reviewers from internationally renowned research teams reviewed each candidate best paper, and (iii) the final selection of four best papers was conducted by the editorial board of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook. Results: The four selected best papers present studies addressing many facets of cancer informatics, with immediate applicability in the translational and clinical domains. Conclusion: Cancer informatics is a broad and vigorous subfield of biomedical informatics. Progress in cancer genomics, artificial intelligence, and passively collected data is especially notable in 2018.

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Findings from the 2018 Yearbook Section on Human Factors and Organizational Issues

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1667074 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 27 (01) ◽

pp. 079-082

Author(s):

Sylvia Pelayo ◽

Johanna Kaipio ◽

Keyword(s):

Human Factors ◽

Medical Informatics ◽

Selection Process ◽

Research Teams ◽

Organizational Issues ◽

Extensive Search ◽

Significant Research ◽

Final Selection ◽

Selection Of

Objective: To summarize significant research contributions published in 2017 on Human Factors and Organizational Issues (HFOI) in medical informatics. Methods: An extensive search using PubMed/Medline and Web of Science® was conducted to identify the scientific contributions published in 2017 that HFOI issues in medical informatics. The selection process comprised three steps: (i) 15 candidate best papers out of 695 references were first selected by the two section editors, (ii) external reviewers from internationally renowned research teams reviewed each candidate best paper, and (iii) the final selection of five best papers was conducted by the editorial board of the Yearbook. Results: The five best papers offer a glimpse of the quality and breadth of the work being conducted in the HFOI community. Conclusion: The selection of the HFOI section of the 2018 IMIA Yearbook highlights a growing number of high quality studies. There are especially more studies interested in testing Human Factors and Ergonomics methods and demonstrating the benefits.

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Trends and Progress in Human Factors and Organizational Issues in 2016: Learning from Experience

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.15265/iy-2017-026 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 26 (01) ◽

pp. 92-95

Author(s):

S. Pelayo ◽

R. Santos

Keyword(s):

Human Factors ◽

Medical Informatics ◽

Selection Process ◽

Evidence Base ◽

Learning From Experience ◽

Organizational Issues ◽

Significant Research ◽

Final Selection ◽

Selection Of

Summary Objective: To summarize significant research contributions on human factors and organizational issues in medical informatics published in 2016. Methods: An extensive search using PubMed/Medline and Web of Science® was conducted to identify the scientific contributions published in 2016 that address human factors and organizational issues in medical informatics. The selection process comprised three steps: (i) 15 candidate best papers were first selected by the two section editors, (ii) external reviewers from internationally renowned research teams reviewed each candidate best paper, and (iii) the final selection of five best papers was conducted by the editorial board of the Yearbook. Results: The five selected best papers present studies with rigorous methods, properly designed and described and are, therefore, efficiently reusable for other researches. Conclusion: Human factors and ergonomics- based interventions must be tailored to the context, but meaningful ways must be simultaneously found to generate a stronger evidence base for research and to provide efficient, easy to implement, and useful methods.

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Human Factors and Sociotechnical Issues

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.1055/s-0039-1677927 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (01) ◽

pp. 078-080

Author(s):

Sylvia Pelayo ◽

Yalini Senathirajah ◽

Keyword(s):

Human Factors ◽

Medical Informatics ◽

Selection Process ◽

Added Value ◽

High Quality ◽

Organizational Issues ◽

Significant Research ◽

Final Selection ◽

Selection Of

Objective: To summarize significant research contributions on human factors (HF) and organizational issues in medical informatics published in 2018. Methods: An extensive search using PubMed/Medline and Web of Science® was conducted to identify the scientific contributions published in 2018 that address human factors and organizational issues in medical informatics. The selection process comprised three steps: (i) 15 candidate best papers were first selected by the two section editors, (ii) external reviewers from internationally renowned research teams reviewed each candidate best paper, and (iii) the final selection of four best papers was conducted by the editorial board of the Yearbook. Results: The four selected best papers are excellent contributions to the HF literature: they show the added value of HF studies by providing nice illustrated and rigorous interventions. Conclusion: HF interventions are known to have great potential to contribute to efficient HIT design, but the interventions still face challenges in successfully demonstrating their value to the main stakeholders of the healthcare domain. There is a need to strengthen the demand for high-quality HF studies by increasing awareness among powerful stakeholders of the value of high-quality HF studies.

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Sensor, Signal, and Imaging Informatics

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.15265/iy-2017-019 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 26 (01) ◽

pp. 120-124

Author(s):

W. Hsu ◽

S. Park ◽

Charles Kahn

Keyword(s):

Medical Informatics ◽

Scientific Work ◽

Imaging Informatics ◽

Sensor Signal ◽

Imaging Data ◽

Extensive Search ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Final Selection ◽

Selection Of

Summary Objective: To summarize significant contributions to sensor, signal, and imaging informatics published in 2016. Methods: We conducted an extensive search using PubMed® and Web of Science® to identify the scientific contributions published in 2016 that addressed sensors, signals, and imaging in medical informatics. The three section editors selected 15 candidate best papers by consensus. Each candidate article was reviewed by the section editors and at least two other external reviewers. The final selection of the six best papers was conducted by the editorial board of the Yearbook. Results: The selected papers of 2016 demonstrate the important scientific advances in management and analysis of sensor, signal, and imaging information. Conclusion: The growing volume of signal and imaging data provides exciting new challenges and opportunities for research in medical informatics. Evolving technologies provide faster and more effective approaches for pattern recognition and diagnostic evaluation. The papers selected here offer a small glimpse of the high-quality scientific work published in 2016 in the domain of sensor, signal, and imaging informatics.

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