2025
Overview
Patient engagement with health informatics refers to the active involvement of patients in the design, implementation, and use of health information systems and technologies that support their care. Research published in Medical Informatics and Decision Making addresses critical infrastructure challenges that directly affect patient safety and engagement, particularly in the domain of adverse drug event reporting and documentation. The journal has examined the fundamental need for standardized definitions, improved documentation practices, and refined mapping systems for adverse drug events, as well as more precise medication definitions within health information systems. These technical standardization efforts are essential because inconsistent or poorly defined data structures can impede patients' ability to understand their medication risks, limit the usefulness of patient-facing health technologies, and compromise the quality of information available for shared decision-making between patients and clinicians. By focusing on the foundational data standards and coding systems that underpin health informatics tools, this research addresses prerequisites for meaningful patient engagement, recognizing that patients can only effectively participate in their care when the underlying information systems accurately capture, represent, and communicate health data in consistent and interpretable ways.
Research published in this journal
1 peer-reviewed article, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.