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Toward an Informatics Research Agenda

Key People and Organizational Issues

Affiliations of the authors: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut (BK); University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (PFB); Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (AFD); University of Pittsburgh (CPF); University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom (VP).

Correspondence and reprints: Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, President, Kaplan Associates, 59 Morris Street, Hamden, CT 06517; e-mail: <bonnie.kaplan{at}yale.edu>.

As we have advanced in medical informatics and created many impressive innovations, we also have learned that technologic developments are not sufficient to bring the value of computer and information technologies to health care systems. This paper proposes a model for improving how we develop and deploy information technology. The authors focus on trends in people, organizational, and social issues (POI/OSI), which are becoming more complex as both health care institutions and information technologies are changing rapidly. They outline key issues and suggest high-priority research areas. One dimension of the model concerns different organizational levels at which informatics applications are used. The other dimension draws on social science disciplines for their approaches to studying implications of POI/OSI in informatics. By drawing on a wide variety of research approaches and asking questions based in social science disciplines, the authors propose a research agenda for high-priority issues, so that the challenges they see ahead for informatics may be met better.

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