Increasingly, the science and tools of informatics are being leveraged across all levels of healthcare delivery, public health and clinical research. The digitization of data across the health and research enterprise has thrust a traditionally academic pursuit more firmly into everyday application, and informatics is foundational to this transformation.
AMIA's Public Policy Committee (PPC) regularly considers the present and near-term policy landscape to develop these Principles and positions across select domains that are essential to the Health Informatics Policy. Similar to Environmental Policy, Education Policy and Social Policy, Health Informatics Policy is a distinct policy domain which seeks to optimize care delivery and care experience, improve population and public health, and advance biomedical research through the collection, analysis and application of data.
Core of Health Informatics Policy
AMIA members, led by the Public Policy Committee, identified 10 Principles as core to Health Informatics Policy, including:
- Patient Empowerment
- Health IT Safety
- Workforce and Education
- Data Sharing in Research
- Health IT Standards & Interoperability
- Informatics-Driven Quality Measurement
- Population & Public Health
- Health Data Privacy
- Artificial Intelligence Principles for Healthcare
- Health and Healthcare Equity
Each Principle begins with a series of statements describing what AMIA believes are intrinsic informatics values. The collection of these Principles are supported through evidence in peer-reviewed literature.