CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Yearb Med Inform 2018; 27(01): 067-073
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1667072
Section 1: Health Information Management
Synopsis
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

Findings from 2017 on Health Information Management

Meryl Bloomrosen
1  Premier healthcare alliance, Washington, DC, USA
,
Eta S. Berner
2  Graduate Programs in Health Informatics, Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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Section Editors for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Health Information Management› Author Affiliations
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Publication History

Publication Date:
29 August 2018 (online)

  

Summary

Objective: To summarize the recent literature and research and present a selection of the best papers published in 2017 in the field of Health Information Management (HIM) and Health Informatics.

Methods: A systematic review of the literature was performed by the two HIM section editors of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook with the help of a medical librarian. We searched bibliographic databases for HIM-related papers using both MeSH descriptors and keywords in titles and abstracts. A shortlist of 15 candidate best papers was first selected by section editors before being peer-reviewed by independent external reviewers.

Results: Health Information Exchange was a major theme within candidate best papers. The four papers ultimately selected as ‘Best Papers’ represent themes that include health information exchange, governance and policy issues, results of health information exchange, and methods of integrating information from multiple sources. Other articles within the candidate best papers include these themes as well as those focusing on authentication and de-identification and usability of information systems.

Conclusions: The papers discussed in the HIM section of IMIA Yearbook reflect the overall theme of the 2018 edition of the Yearbook, i.e., the tension between privacy and access to information. While most of the papers focused on health information exchange, which reflects the “access” side of the equation, most of the others addressed privacy issues. This synopsis discusses these key issues at the intersection of HIM and informatics.

Keywords

Health information management - health information exchange - personal health records - data privacy, patient - data security - electronic health records