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ArticleYearbook of medical informatics2016

Preface - Access to Knowledge Revisited.

D A B Lindberg, B L Humphreys

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Article in Yearbook of medical informatics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

D A B LindbergDonald A.B. Lindberg, MD, 13601 Esworthy Road, Germantown, MD 20874-3319, USA, E-mail: donald.lindberg@gmail.com.
B L Humphreys

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo review and update the Preface to the 1998 Yearbook of Medical Informatics, which had as its Special Topic "Health Informatics and the Internet".

methodAssessment of the accuracy of predictions made in 1998 and consideration of key developments in informatics since that time.

resultsPredictions made in 1998 were generally accurate regarding reduced dependence on keyboards, expansion of multimedia, medical data privacy policy development, impact of molecular biology on knowledge and treatment of neoplasms, and use of imaging and informatics to advance understanding of brain structure and function. Key developments since 1998 include the huge increase in publicly available electronic information; acknowledgement by leaders in government and science of the importance of biomedical informatics to societal goals for health, health care, and scientific discovery; the influence of the public in promoting clinical research transparency and free access to government-funded research results; the long-awaited arrival of electronic health records; and the "Cloud" as a 21st century reformulation of contracting out the computer center.

conclusionsThere are many challenging and important problems that deserve the attention of the informatics community. Informatics researchers will be best served by embracing a very broad definition of medical informatics and by promoting public understanding of the field.

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Access to InformationComputational BiologyConsumer Health InformationElectronic Health RecordsForecastingHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyInternetMedical InformaticsMEDLINEPeriodicals as TopicAccess to informationbrain mappingconsumer health informationelectronic health recordsinformaticsneoplasm gene

Identifiers

PMID27199193
PMCPMC5171500

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