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Learning from colleagues about healthcare IT implementation and optimization: lessons from a medical informatics listserv.

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Adams, MB; Kaplan, B; Sobko, HJ; Kuziemsky, C; Ravvaz, K; Koppel, R
Published in: J Med Syst
January 2015

Communication among medical informatics communities can suffer from fragmentation across multiple forums, disciplines, and subdisciplines; variation among journals, vocabularies and ontologies; cost and distance. Online communities help overcome these obstacles, but may become onerous when listservs are flooded with cross-postings. Rich and relevant content may be ignored. The American Medical Informatics Association successfully addressed these problems when it created a virtual meeting place by merging the membership of four working groups into a single listserv known as the "Implementation and Optimization Forum." A communication explosion ensued, with thousands of interchanges, hundreds of topics, commentaries from "notables," neophytes, and students--many from different disciplines, countries, traditions. We discuss the listserv's creation, illustrate its benefits, and examine its lessons for others. We use examples from the lively, creative, deep, and occasionally conflicting discussions of user experiences--interchanges about medication reconciliation, open source strategies, nursing, ethics, system integration, and patient photos in the EMR--all enhancing knowledge, collegiality, and collaboration.

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J Med Syst

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EISSN

1573-689X

Publication Date

January 2015

Volume

39

Issue

1

Start / End Page

157

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Workflow
  • Systems Integration
  • Social Media
  • Medication Reconciliation
  • Medical Informatics Applications
  • Medical Informatics
  • Internet
  • Humans
  • Health Personnel
  • Electronic Health Records
 

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Adams, M. B., Kaplan, B., Sobko, H. J., Kuziemsky, C., Ravvaz, K., & Koppel, R. (2015). Learning from colleagues about healthcare IT implementation and optimization: lessons from a medical informatics listserv. J Med Syst, 39(1), 157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-014-0157-3
Adams, Martha B., Bonnie Kaplan, Heather J. Sobko, Craig Kuziemsky, Kourosh Ravvaz, and Ross Koppel. “Learning from colleagues about healthcare IT implementation and optimization: lessons from a medical informatics listserv.J Med Syst 39, no. 1 (January 2015): 157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-014-0157-3.
Adams MB, Kaplan B, Sobko HJ, Kuziemsky C, Ravvaz K, Koppel R. Learning from colleagues about healthcare IT implementation and optimization: lessons from a medical informatics listserv. J Med Syst. 2015 Jan;39(1):157.
Adams, Martha B., et al. “Learning from colleagues about healthcare IT implementation and optimization: lessons from a medical informatics listserv.J Med Syst, vol. 39, no. 1, Jan. 2015, p. 157. Pubmed, doi:10.1007/s10916-014-0157-3.
Adams MB, Kaplan B, Sobko HJ, Kuziemsky C, Ravvaz K, Koppel R. Learning from colleagues about healthcare IT implementation and optimization: lessons from a medical informatics listserv. J Med Syst. 2015 Jan;39(1):157.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Med Syst

DOI

EISSN

1573-689X

Publication Date

January 2015

Volume

39

Issue

1

Start / End Page

157

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Workflow
  • Systems Integration
  • Social Media
  • Medication Reconciliation
  • Medical Informatics Applications
  • Medical Informatics
  • Internet
  • Humans
  • Health Personnel
  • Electronic Health Records