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- Title
A proposed national research and development agenda for population health informatics: summary recommendations from a national expert workshop.
- Authors
Kharrazi, Hadi; Lasser, Elyse C.; Yasnoff, William A.; Loonsk, John; Advani, Aneel; Lehmann, Harold P.; Chin, David C.; Weiner, Jonathan P.
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>The Johns Hopkins Center for Population Health IT hosted a 1-day symposium sponsored by the National Library of Medicine to help develop a national research and development (R&D) agenda for the emerging field of population health informatics (PopHI).<bold>Material and Methods: </bold>The symposium provided a venue for national experts to brainstorm, identify, discuss, and prioritize the top challenges and opportunities in the PopHI field, as well as R&D areas to address these.<bold>Results: </bold>This manuscript summarizes the findings of the PopHI symposium. The symposium participants' recommendations have been categorized into 13 overarching themes, including policy alignment, data governance, sustainability and incentives, and standards/interoperability.<bold>Discussion: </bold>The proposed consensus-based national agenda for PopHI consisted of 18 priority recommendations grouped into 4 broad goals: (1) Developing a standardized collaborative framework and infrastructure, (2) Advancing technical tools and methods, (3) Developing a scientific evidence and knowledge base, and (4) Developing an appropriate framework for policy, privacy, and sustainability. There was a substantial amount of agreement between all the participants on the challenges and opportunities for PopHI as well as on the actions that needed to be taken to address these.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>PopHI is a rapidly growing field that has emerged to address the population dimension of the Triple Aim. The proposed PopHI R&D agenda is comprehensive and timely, but should be considered only a starting-point, given that ongoing developments in health policy, population health management, and informatics are very dynamic, suggesting that the agenda will require constant monitoring and updating.
- Subjects
MEDICAL informatics; RESEARCH &; development; HEALTH policy; DATA management; SUSTAINABILITY
- Publication
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2017, Vol 24, Issue 1, p2
- ISSN
1067-5027
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/jamia/ocv210