Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2023 Mar 16;30(4):775-780. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocad024.
Global Health Informatics (GHI) as a branch of health informatics has been established for 2 decades now. During that time, great strides have been made in the creation and implementation of informatics tools to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes in the most vulnerable and remote communities worldwide. In many of the most successful projects, innovation has been shared between teams in high- and low- or middle-income countries (LMICs). In this perspective, we review the state of the academic field of GHI and the work published in JAMIA in the last 6 1/2 years. We apply criteria for articles about LMICs, those on international health, and on indigenous and refugee population, and subtypes of research. For comparison, we apply those criteria to JAMIA Open and 3 other health informatics journals which publish articles on GHI. We make recommendations for future directions and the role that journals like JAMIA can play in strengthening this work worldwide.
全球健康信息学(GHI)作为健康信息学的一个分支,已经存在了 20 年。在这期间,为了改善全球最脆弱和偏远社区的医疗服务和结果,人们在开发和实施信息学工具方面取得了巨大进展。在许多最成功的项目中,高收入和低收入/中等收入国家(LMICs)的团队之间共享了创新。在这篇观点文章中,我们回顾了过去 6 年半时间里 GHI 的学术领域和在《JAMIA》上发表的工作。我们应用了关于 LMICs、国际卫生以及原住民和难民人口以及研究亚型的文章的标准。作为比较,我们将这些标准应用于《JAMIA Open》和其他 3 种发表 GHI 文章的健康信息学期刊。我们为未来的方向以及像《JAMIA》这样的期刊在加强全球这项工作方面可以发挥的作用提出了建议。