Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics

Innovation in Health Informatics (formerly Informatics in Primary Care) is the house journal of BCS Health, the health informatics specialist group of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. It publishes high-quality research papers, literature reviews and letters from both researchers and practitioners in the fields of social care, health and clinical informatics. Its focus is on informatics research from the front lines of health care and how informatics can support innovation in health and health care.

We look to publish articles about how computers and information technology can be incorporated into clinical workflow and be used to measure quality and health outcomes.  We are interested in how computerised medical records can better record the clinical status of patients and can be used to measure the quality, safety and efficiency of health care professionals and organisations – including primary care, hospital, mental health, and social and community care.  The scope of the journal also includes integrated care and how genetic data might be used to enhance health care. Both qualitative and quantitative research will be considered.

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Announcements

 

We have a new name!

  

After 20 years as Informatics in Primary Care, the journal is renamed Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics.

Informatics is an innovative science, and informaticians need to innovate across professional and discipline boundaries. The title was carefully selected to reflect that

(1) informatics provides the opportunity to innovate rather than simply automates;

(2) implementing informatics solutions often results in unintended consequences, and many implementations fail and benefits and innovations may go unrecognised;

(3) health informatics is a boundary spanning discipline and is by its very nature likely to give rise to innovation.

You can read more about the name change in "Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics: building on the 20-year history of a BCS peer review journal" (Vol 22, 1).

 

  
Posted: 2015-02-10
 
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Vol 23, No 2

Table of Contents

Miscellaneous

In this issue: Realising benefits and that informatics is all about the patient
Simon de Lusignan
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Editorial

Open Source Paradigm: A Synopsis of The Cathedral and the Bazaar for Health and Social Care
Tim Benson
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488-492

Research article

The acceptability to patients of video-consulting in general practice: semi-structured interviews in three diverse general practices.
Sophie Leng, Margaret MacDougall, Brian McKinstry
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493–500
Qualitative analysis of multi-disciplinary round-table discussions on the acceleration of benefits and data analytics through hospital electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) systems
Kathrin Cresswell, Jamie Coleman, Pam Smith, Charles Swainson, Ann Slee, Aziz Sheikh
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501–509
Physical Activity in Ankylosing Spondylitis: evaluation and analysis of an eHealth tool
Jess Shelagh Tyrrell, Clare Helen Redshaw
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510–522
Implementing and Using a Patient Portal: A qualitative exploration of patient and provider perspectives on engaging patients
Bridget L. Ryan, Judith Belle Brown, Amanda Terry, Sonny Cejic, Moira Stewart, Amardeep Thind
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534–540
Patient-facing Technology for Identification of COPD in Primary Care
David Kevin Ahern, Donna Parker, Charles Eaton, Caitlin Rafferty, Joseph Wroblewski, Roberta Goldman
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541–546

Technology report

The Melbourne East Monash General Practice Database (MAGNET): Using data from computerised medical records to create a platform for primary care and health services research
Danielle Mazza, Christopher Pearce, Lyle Robert Turner, Maria de Leon-Santiago, Adam McLeod, Jason Ferriggi, Marianne Shearer
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523–528

Short report

The critical components of an electronic care plan tool for primary care: an exploratory qualitative study
Lisa Rotenstein, Suhavi Tucker, Rose Kakoza, Lori Tishler, Adrian Zai, Charlotte Wu
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529–533