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Publishing in Medical Informatics

Learn the benefits, techniques, and challenges of publishing in medical informatics from expert Dr. Madhu Reddy. Get insights on qualitative vs. quantitative approaches and dealing with reviews in this informational session.

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Publishing in Medical Informatics

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  1. College of Information Sciences andTechnology Publishing in Medical Informatics Madhu Reddy Ph.D. College of Information Sciences and Technology The Pennsylvania State University E-mail: mreddy@ist.psu.edu AIS SIG HEALTH WORKSHOP August 6, 2009

  2. Questions • Why should I publish in medical informatics? • What are the challenges to publishing in medical informatics? • What are some useful techniques to help me publish in medical informatics? **Please feel free to stop me and ask questions**

  3. Who am I? • Ph.D. - University of California, Irvine (2003) • School of Information and Computer Science • Research Interests • Medical Informatics • Computer-Supported Cooperative Work • Research Approach • Qualitative field studies • Prototyping

  4. Background in Medical Informatics • Research focus: Collaboration in information-intensive clinical settings • Ex: Intensive Care Units, Emergency Departments • Publishing in the field since 2000 • Conference and journals • Reviewed for all the major medical informatics journals • Reviewer for NIH and AHRQ SEPs • Chair of AMIA Diane Forsythe Award

  5. What is Medical Informatics? • American Medical Informatics Association • 4,000 members in a variety of health related disciplines • The focus is on information technology in clinical/patient care • Clinical systems: electronic medical records, clinical decision support systems • Meeting information needs: Information retrieval systems • Workflow: systems to support clinical protocols

  6. Medical Informatics (cont..) • Broad spectrum of researchers and research interests • Sub-areas: Nursing informatics, Consumer informatics, Clinical informatics • What is not covered • Administrative systems (e.g., billing, ADT, etc)

  7. Medical Informatics (cont…) • Unlike other research communities, PhDs are in the minority • The concept of “research” is viewed slightly differently • Randomized Control Trial (RCT) as an evaluation technique ** IS and other domains can provide insights for the medical informatics community**

  8. Publishing in Medical Informatics • Conferences: • 1 major national conference: Fall Symposium (2 years in Washington, 1 year in other city) • New acceptance format • 1 major international conference: MedInfo (Triannual conference: 2010 in South Africa) • Journals • Shorter papers compared to IS • External/internal issues

  9. Most Popular Journals

  10. Challenges to Publishing in Medical Informatics • Knowing your audience • Qualitative vs. quantitative • Reviews

  11. Challenge 1: know your audience • Broad and diverse • Please keep in mind that most readers are not PhDs • “Practically oriented” – Theory development not of particular interest • Model application is of interest as long as it leads to point 3 below • Take-away lessons important

  12. Challenge 2: Qualitative vs. Quantitative • Most medical informatics researchers are quantitatively trained • Getting qualitative papers accepted is a challenge • Need to provide detailed methodology • Presenting some “quantitative” data is helpful

  13. Challenge 3: Dealing with Reviews • Review process has improved but is still challenging • “We’ve already done this work.” • Random reviews • “Are we talking about the same paper?” • Quick turn-around times • Medical informatics reviews 4-6 weeks

  14. Lessons Learned • Pick the right outlet • Some journals are more friendly to a particular type of work (i.e. IJMI – qualitative research) • Suggest reviewers to the editor • Biggest problem – getting the wrong reviewers for the paper • Dealing with frustration • Good stiff drink helps sometimes!!

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