Holve Erin
AcademyHealth.
EGEMS (Wash DC). 2014 Oct 9;2(1):1157. doi: 10.13063/2327-9214.1157. eCollection 2014.
In January 2013 AcademyHealth officially launched eGEMs (Generating Evidence and Methods to improve patient outcomes) to rapidly disseminate peer-reviewed approaches using electronic health data (EHD) to advance research and quality improvement (QI), with the overall goal of improving patient and community outcomes. Inspired by the publication of eGEMs 50(th) paper, Dr. Erin Holve, eGEMs editor-in-chief reviews the EDM Forum's early experiences with open access publishing.
As of the end of September 2014 eGEMs has published 59 manuscripts and received nearly 150 submissions. These early findings demonstrate eGEMs is filling a need for dissemination outlets that bridge the gap between the health research and practice communities. Published papers are distributed across the EDM Forum's four thematic domains: governance (n=5), informatics (n=14), methods (n=13) and learning health systems (n=27). While system design issues are a consistent theme, papers addressing priority health topics such as diabetes, asthma, and obesity are frequently submitted. Authors include more than two hundred experts in the field representing nearly all of the EDM Forum's core stakeholder groups: research/QI, nonprofit/policy, healthcare delivery, government, industry, and patients/consumers. WHAT’S NEXT: With the help of our diverse community, eGEMs will continue to expand its depth and reach. Forthcoming special issues on community-level transformation using health IT, and ways to improve user-experience and system design will add to the journal's robust portfolio of work identifying and addressing shared challenges using EHD. The EDM Forum, working closely with our partners at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, will work diligently to ensure eGEMs is accelerating the pace at which the community translates and disseminates key lessons, with the ultimate goal of helping transform knowledge into actions that can improve health and health care.
2013年1月，美国卫生政策与管理学会（AcademyHealth）正式推出了电子生成证据与方法（eGEMs，即“利用电子健康数据生成证据和方法以改善患者结局”），旨在迅速传播经同行评审的利用电子健康数据（EHD）推进研究和质量改进（QI）的方法，总体目标是改善患者和社区结局。受eGEMs第50篇论文发表的启发，eGEMs主编艾琳·霍尔夫博士回顾了EDM论坛在开放获取出版方面的早期经验。
截至目前的eGEMs情况：截至2014年9月底，eGEMs已发表59篇手稿，并收到近150份投稿。这些早期发现表明，eGEMs正在满足对弥合健康研究与实践社区之间差距的传播渠道的需求。已发表的论文分布在EDM论坛的四个主题领域：治理（n = 5）、信息学（n = 14）、方法（n = 13）和学习型健康系统（n = 27）。虽然系统设计问题是一个持续的主题，但涉及糖尿病、哮喘和肥胖等重点健康话题的论文也经常被提交。作者包括该领域的两百多名专家，代表了几乎所有EDM论坛的核心利益相关者群体：研究/质量改进、非营利组织/政策、医疗服务提供、政府、行业以及患者/消费者。
在我们多元化社区的帮助下，eGEMs将继续扩大其深度和影响力。即将推出的关于利用健康信息技术进行社区层面转型以及改善用户体验和系统设计方法的特刊，将丰富该期刊通过EHD识别和应对共同挑战的强大工作组合。EDM论坛将与医疗保健研究与质量局的合作伙伴密切合作，努力确保eGEMs加快社区转化和传播关键经验教训的速度，最终目标是帮助将知识转化为能够改善健康和医疗保健的行动。
