What Medical Informaticians Do With and Think About an International Medical Informatics Listserv: Member Survey Preliminary Findings

Craig Kuziemsky; Martha B Adams; Bonnie Kaplan; Kourosh Ravvaz; Ross Koppel

What Medical Informaticians Do With and Think About an International Medical Informatics Listserv: Member Survey Preliminary Findings

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015:216:1124.

Authors

Craig Kuziemsky¹, Martha B Adams², Bonnie Kaplan³, Kourosh Ravvaz⁴, Ross Koppel⁵

Affiliations

¹ Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine; Division of Clinical Informatics, Department of Community and Family Medicine; Duke Center for Health Informatics, Duke University Medical Center, USA.
³ Yale Center for Medical Informatics at the Yale University School of Medicine; Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; The Information Society Project at the Yale Law School, Yale University, USA.
⁴ Aurora Research Institute, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
⁵ Sociology Department; Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Medical School; LDI, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

PMID: 26262423

Abstract

A survey of members of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) listserv Forum on implementation and optimization asked how members perceived the Forum, and suggestions for improvement. Respondents appear to be remarkably engaged with the Forum's debates, information sharing, educational and practical teachings, comments, and immediacy.

MeSH terms

Consumer Behavior
Electronic Mail / statistics & numerical data*
Information Dissemination*
Internationality
Medical Informatics / statistics & numerical data*
Social Media / statistics & numerical data*
Surveys and Questionnaires*
United States