AMIA members' "vital signs": what the HIT implementation listserv says about goals for AMIA and for medical informatics.

Kourosh Ravvaz, Craig Kuziemsky, Ross Koppel, Bonnie Kaplan, Samantha A Adams, Martha B Adams

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Article in AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

Samantha Adams Festschrift: Sam Adams and the Social Construction of Technology and Health-Implications for Biomedical Informatics.Applied clinical informatics · 2018
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The Gap in Medical Informatics and Continuing Education Between the United States and China: A Comparison of Conferences in 2016.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017
Article
Development of medical informatics in China over the past 30 years from a conference perspective and a Sino-American comparison.PeerJ · 2017
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Kourosh RavvazAurora Research Institute, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee; College of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Craig KuziemskyTelfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Ross KoppelSociology Department; Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Medical School; LDI, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Bonnie KaplanYale Center for Medical Informatics at Yale University School of Medicine; Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; The Information Society Project at Yale Law School, Yale University, USA.

Samantha A AdamsTilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

Martha B AdamsDivision of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine; Division of Clinical Informatics, Department of Community and Family Medicine; Duke Center for Health Informatics, Duke University Medical Center, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The health information technology (HIT) implementation listserv was conceived as a way to combine a substantial portion of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) members who belonged to four working groups (WGs): CIS, Evaluation, ELSI, and POI. Other AMIA members joined in significant numbers. It immediately became a major forum for discussing medical informatics, informatics policies, and discussion of the purpose of AMIA itself. The listserv membership approximates 25% of AMIA's members and has generated over 6,000 posts. We report on a survey of the listserv's members: what members think about the listserv; what participants want for medical informatics; how they think those goals should be achieved, and what AMIA's role should be in this process. The listserv provides vital signs about AMIA and hopes for informatics. We combine qualitative analysis of members' comments and responses about the listserv using ATLAS.ti qualitative text analysis tool and a word cloud generator.

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GoalsMedical InformaticsHumansSurveys and Questionnaires

Identifiers

PMID26958245

PMCPMC4765686

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