IAHSI - IMIA call for Applied Clinical Informatics Papers
IAHSI - IMIA: Special Issue on Disparities, Biases, and Disinformation in Healthcare - Have your say by 1 August 2021
Clinical Associate Professor Terry Hannan calls for Applied Clinical Informatics Papers
As a consultation physician and informatician, Clinical Associate Professor Terry Hannan knows the value of high-quality data and information to support decision-making in healthcare. In his current role as one of the Special Topic Editors for the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (the Academy), he invites contributions from the informatics, health communication, medical decision making, and public health communities to explore the problems of bias, disparities, and misinformation in health care, and how these disciplines could work together to solve them.
Topics and scope
The Ethical Role of the Informatician Disparities in health and healthcare exist in any specialty and care setting. Notable examples include racial, ethnic, geographic, socioeconomic, and other differences in diseases rates such as HIV, AIDS, hepatitis C, COVID-19, Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain cancers, infant mortality and life expectancy, and exposure to traumatic events. Disparities, biases, and moral failures are perpetuated in the design of, and access to, healthcare, and ultimately to the delivery of care which frequently is inequitable. At the heart of all of these disparities are data and information--their representation, content, semantics, and uses and their manifestation in diverse ways in electronic health records, patient-physician communication, decision-making, health messaging, and social and popular media.
As professionals who influence the information landscape, we have an obligation to identify and mitigate sources of bias in information systems and processes that perpetuate health disparities. Therefore, this special issue will provide a platform for the biomedical informatics community and others to contribute their research, opinions, case reports, or reviews of the literature to examine the ways informatics and information cause, perpetuate, or worsen health disparities and biases or contribute to attempts to identify, address, and diminish them. Authors will be able to explore how data can detect, identify, and highlight disparities and lead to their reduction.
Paper Submission and Format Guidelines
We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from academic and healthcare organizations, individuals, and industry that address any of the topics listed above. Manuscripts may be submitted as Research Articles, State of the Art/Best Practice Papers, Case Reports, Reviews, or Letters to the Editor.
More information on the call for papers
About the Academy
The International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics was established in 2017 through the auspice of IMIA, the International Medical Informatics Association, and as a component of this Association, is similar to other national academies of sciences. The Academy serves as an international forum for peers in biomedical and health informatics and plays an important role in exchanging knowledge, providing education and training, and producing policy documents, e.g., recommendations and position statements. Clinical Associate Professor Terry Hannan is an inaugural member of the Academy. He is also a consultant physician and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University.
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