Provocations for Reimagining Informatics Approaches to Health Equity

Summary: As the informatics community commits to the goal of advancing health equity, it is essential that we openly critique our current approaches and reimagine the ways in which we design, implement, evaluate, and advocate for policies related to informatics interventions. In this paper, we present five provocations as a starting point for building more conscientious informatics practice in service of this goal: 1) Health informatics interventions can create an “illusion of impactful action” without significant material benefits for marginalized patients, families, and communities; 2) Health informatics interventions target the wrong stakeholders, the wrong processes, and the wrong technologies to achieve equity; 3) Informaticians must conceptualize health literacy and other factors shaping patients' experiences as a system-level rather than individual-level characteristic; 4) Informatics interventions wrongly assume that interacting contextual factors can be meaningfully captured by over-simplified structured variables; and 5) Informatics interventions often specify the wrong system boundaries and solution space. We further assert that drastic shifts in our current practices will allow us to honor our claims of valuing patient-centered approaches, especially for marginalized communities.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Provocations for Reimagining Informatics Approaches to Health Equity ; volume:31 ; number:01 ; year:2022 ; pages:015-019 ; Yearbook of medical informatics ; 31, Heft 01 (2022), 015-019

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen: Valdez, Rupa S. ; Ancker, Jessica S. ; Veinot, Tiffany C.

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1742514
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2411072104019.404819842061
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 15.08.2025, 07:29 MESZ