PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS IN RECENT TRENDS

Current trends and challenges in health informatics

Trends in informatics publications and health policy

Healthcare delivery in the US changed with the adoption of the electronic medical record (EMR). The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) were signed into legislation in 2009 and 2010, with the latter designed to encourage EMR use [1]. With these changes in healthcare del...

Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics.

Objectives: To summarize current research in the field of Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics. Methods: The complete 2016 literature concerning public health and epidemiology informatics has been searched in PubMed and Web of Science, and the returned references were reviewed by the two section editors to select 14 candidate best papers. These papers were then peer-reviewed by external r...

What’s Past is Prologue: A Scoping Review of Recent Public Health and Global Health Informatics Literature

OBJECTIVE To categorize and describe the public health informatics (PHI) and global health informatics (GHI) literature between 2012 and 2014. METHODS We conducted a semi-systematic review of articles published between January 2012 and September 2014 where information and communications technologies (ICT) was a primary subject of the study or a main component of the study methodology. Additio...

Trends in biomedical informatics: most cited topics from recent years

Biomedical informatics is a young, highly interdisciplinary field that is evolving quickly. It is important to know which published topics in generalist biomedical informatics journals elicit the most interest from the scientific community, and whether this interest changes over time, so that journals can better serve their readers. It is also important to understand whether free access to biom...