From silos to synergy: integrating academic health informatics with operational IT for healthcare transformation.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 38982211.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41746-024-01179-5 and PMC identifier 11233608.
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Abstract
We have entered a new age of health informatics—applied health informatics—where digital health innovation cannot be pursued without considering operational needs. In this new digital health era, creating an integrated applied health informatics system will be essential for health systems to achieve informatics healthcare goals. Integration of information technology (IT) and health informatics does not naturally occur without a deliberate and intentional shift towards unification. Recognizing this, NYU Langone Health’s (NYULH) Medical Center IT (MCIT) has taken proactive measures to vertically integrate academic informatics and operational IT through the establishment of the MCIT Department of Health Informatics (DHI). The creation of the NYULH DHI showcases the drivers, challenges, and ultimate successes of our enterprise effort to align academic health informatics with IT; providing a model for the creation of the applied health informatics programs required for academic health systems to thrive in the increasingly digitized healthcare landscape.