Summary
Objective: To give an overview of recent research and to propose a selection of best papers
published in 2019 in the field of Clinical Information Systems (CIS).
Method: Each year, we apply a systematic process to retrieve articles for the CIS section
of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics. For six years now, we use the same query
to find relevant publications in the CIS field. Each year we retrieve more than 2,000
papers. As CIS section editors, we categorize the retrieved articles in a multi-pass
review to distill a pre-selection of 15 candidate best papers. Then, Yearbook editors
and external reviewers assess the selected candidate best papers. Based on the review
results, the IMIA Yearbook Editorial Committee chooses the best papers during the
selection meeting. We used text mining, and term co-occurrence mapping techniques
to get an overview of the content of the retrieved articles.
Results: We carried out the query in mid-January 2020 and retrieved a de-duplicated result
set of 2,407 articles from 1,023 different journals. This year, we nominated 14 papers
as candidate best papers, and three of them were finally selected as best papers in
the CIS section. As in previous years, the content analysis of the articles revealed
the broad spectrum of topics covered by CIS research.
Conclusions: We could observe ongoing trends, as seen in the last years. Patient benefit research
is in the focus of many research activities, and trans-institutional aggregation of
data remains a relevant field of work. Powerful machine-learning-based approaches,
that use readily available data now often outperform human-based procedures. However,
the ethical perspective of this development often comes too short in the considerations.
We thus assume that ethical aspects will and should deliver much food for thought
for future CIS research.
Keywords
Medical informatics - International Medical Informatics Association - Yearbook - Clinical
Information Systems
