From silos to synergy: integrating academic health informatics with operational IT for healthcare transformation

IF 12.4 1区医学 Q1 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

NPJ Digital Medicine Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI:10.1038/s41746-024-01179-5

Devin M. Mann, Elizabeth R. Stevens, Paul Testa, Nader Mherabi

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We have entered a new age of health informatics—applied health informatics—where digital health innovation cannot be pursued without considering operational needs. In this new digital health era, creating an integrated applied health informatics system will be essential for health systems to achieve informatics healthcare goals. Integration of information technology (IT) and health informatics does not naturally occur without a deliberate and intentional shift towards unification. Recognizing this, NYU Langone Health’s (NYULH) Medical Center IT (MCIT) has taken proactive measures to vertically integrate academic informatics and operational IT through the establishment of the MCIT Department of Health Informatics (DHI). The creation of the NYULH DHI showcases the drivers, challenges, and ultimate successes of our enterprise effort to align academic health informatics with IT; providing a model for the creation of the applied health informatics programs required for academic health systems to thrive in the increasingly digitized healthcare landscape.

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从孤岛到协同：整合学术卫生信息学与业务信息技术，促进医疗保健转型。

我们已经进入了一个健康信息学的新时代--应用健康信息学--在这个时代，追求数字健康创新不能不考虑业务需求。在这个新的数字医疗时代，创建一个整合的应用医疗信息系统对于医疗系统实现信息医疗目标至关重要。如果不有意识地向统一化转变，信息技术（IT）和健康信息学的整合就不会自然而然地发生。纽约大学朗格尼医院（NYULH）医学中心信息技术部（MCIT）认识到了这一点，并采取了积极措施，通过建立医学中心信息技术部健康信息学系（DHI），将学术信息学和运营信息技术进行纵向整合。NYULH DHI 的创建展示了我们将学术健康信息学与 IT 相结合的企业努力的驱动力、挑战和最终成功；为创建学术健康系统所需的应用健康信息学项目提供了一个模式，以便在日益数字化的医疗保健环境中茁壮成长。

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NPJ Digital Medicine Multiple-

CiteScore

25.10

自引率

3.30%

发文量

170

审稿时长

15 weeks

期刊介绍： npj Digital Medicine is an online open-access journal that focuses on publishing peer-reviewed research in the field of digital medicine. The journal covers various aspects of digital medicine, including the application and implementation of digital and mobile technologies in clinical settings, virtual healthcare, and the use of artificial intelligence and informatics. The primary goal of the journal is to support innovation and the advancement of healthcare through the integration of new digital and mobile technologies. When determining if a manuscript is suitable for publication, the journal considers four important criteria: novelty, clinical relevance, scientific rigor, and digital innovation.