Challenges and Opportunities in Cardiovascular Health Informatics

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 633-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Ting Zhang ◽  
Ya-Li Zheng ◽  
Wan-Hua Lin ◽  
He-Ye Zhang ◽  
Xiao-Lin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Health Informatics ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

scholarly journals Personal Health Informatics. Editorial

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (01) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
C. A. Kulikowski ◽  
A. Geissbuhler
Keyword(s):  
Health Informatics ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Working Groups

SummaryTo provide an editorial introduction to the 2012 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors.A brief overview of the main theme, and an outline of the purposes, contents, format, and acknowledgment of contributions for the 2012 IMIA Yearbook.This 2012 issue of the IMIA Yearbook highlights important developments in personal health informatics, impacting the activities in research, education and practice in this interdisciplinary field.There has been steady progress towards introducing individualization or personalization into informatics systems by taking advantage of the increasing amounts of personal information that is relevant to medical decisions and application in clinical practice. At the same time, there are serious issues about the limits of existing systems being able to effectively personalize information within both practical and ethical constraints so critical to the practice of medicine. Recent literature bearing on these questions includes the selected papers published during the past 12 months, and articles reported by IMIA Working Groups on these topics.Surveys of the main research sub-fields in biomedical informatics in the Yearbook provide an overview of progress and current challenges across the spectrum of the discipline, focusing on the challenges and opportunities involved in personal health informatics.

scholarly journals A Public Health Informatics Solution to Improving Food Safety in Restaurants: Putting the Missing Piece in the Puzzle

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sripriya Rajamani ◽  
Melanie Firestone ◽  
Craig Hedberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foodborne Illness ◽  
Public Health Informatics ◽  
Illness Prevention ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Inspection Data ◽  
And Control

Foodborne illnesses remain an important public health challenge in the United States causing an estimated 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths per year. Restaurants are frequent settings for foodborne illness transmission. Public health surveillance – the continual, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of reports of health data to prevent and control illness – is a prerequisite for an effective food control system. While restaurant inspection data are routinely collected, these data are not regularly aggregated like traditional surveillance data. However, there is evidence that these data are a valuable tool for understanding foodborne illness outbreaks and threats to food safety. This article discusses the challenges and opportunities for incorporating routine restaurant inspection data as a surveillance tool for monitoring and improving foodborne illness prevention activities.  The three main challenges are: 1) the need for a national framework; 2) lack of data standards and interoperability; and 3) limited access to restaurant inspection data. Tapping into the power of public health informatics represents an opportunity to address these challenges. Overall, improving restaurant inspection information systems and making restaurant inspection data available to support decision-making represents an opportunity to practice smarter food safety.

scholarly journals Challenges and Opportunities for the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease Among Young Adults: Report From a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly C. Gooding ◽  
Samuel S. Gidding ◽  
Andrew E. Moran ◽  
Nicole Redmond ◽  
Norrina B. Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Blood Institute ◽  
National Heart ◽  
Prevention And Treatment ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
National Heart Lung

Abstract Improvements in cardiovascular disease (CVD) rates among young adults in the past 2 decades have been offset by increasing racial/ethnic and gender disparities, persistence of unhealthy lifestyle habits, overweight and obesity, and other CVD risk factors. To enhance the promotion of cardiovascular health among young adults 18 to 39 years old, the medical and broader public health community must understand the biological, interpersonal, and behavioral features of this life stage. Therefore, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, with support from the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, convened a 2‐day workshop in Bethesda, Maryland, in September 2017 to identify research challenges and opportunities related to the cardiovascular health of young adults. The current generation of young adults live in an environment undergoing substantial economic, social, and technological transformations, differentiating them from prior research cohorts of young adults. Although the accumulation of clinical and behavioral risk factors for CVD begins early in life, and research suggests early risk is an important determinant of future events, few trials have studied prevention and treatment of CVD in participants <40 years old. Building an evidence base for CVD prevention in this population will require the engagement of young adults, who are often disconnected from the healthcare system and may not prioritize long‐term health. These changes demand a repositioning of existing evidence‐based treatments to accommodate new sociotechnical contexts. In this article, the authors review the recent literature and current research opportunities to advance the cardiovascular health of today's young adults.

scholarly journals A proposed national research and development agenda for population health informatics: summary recommendations from a national expert workshop

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadi Kharrazi ◽  
Elyse C Lasser ◽  
William A Yasnoff ◽  
John Loonsk ◽  
Aneel Advani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Data Governance ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Policy Alignment

Objective: 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). Material and Methods: 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. Results: 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. Discussion: 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. Conclusion: 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.

scholarly journals Guest Editorial Cardiovascular Health Informatics: Risk Screening and Intervention

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 791-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig J. Hartley ◽  
Morteza Naghavi ◽  
Oberdan Parodi ◽  
Constantinos S. Pattichis ◽  
Carmen C. Y. Poon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Informatics ◽  
Guest Editorial ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Risk Screening

scholarly journals Towards Health Informatics 3.0. Editorial

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 06-07 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casimir Kulikowski ◽  
Antoine Geissbuhler
Keyword(s):  
Health Informatics ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
The Past ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Working Groups

SummaryTo provide an editorial introduction to the 2011 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors.A brief overview of the main theme, and an outline of the purposes, contents, format, and acknowledgment of contributions for the 2011 IMIA Yearbook.This 2011 issue of the IMIA Yearbook highlights important developments in the development of Web 3.0 capabilities that are increasing in Health Informatics, impacting the activities in research, education and practice in this interdisciplinary field. There has been steady progress towards introducing semantics into informatics systems through more sophisticated representations of knowledge in their underlying information. Health Informatics 3.0 capabilities are identified from the recent literature, illustrated by selected papers published during the past 12 months, and articles reported by IMIA Working Groups.Surveys of the main research sub-fields in biomedical informatics in the Yearbook provide an overview of progress and current challenges across the spectrum of the discipline, focusing on Web 3.0 challenges and opportunities.

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