In this editorial, I focus on 5 papers that highlight the centrality of the patient. Two papers
address the issue of “patient work.” The first reports qualitative research to identify …

An American Medical Informatics Association position paper reporting a clinical informatics
practice analysis 1 leads off this issue of Journal of the American Medical Informatics …

Objective We investigated patient experiences with medication-and test-related cost
conversations with healthcare providers to identify their preferences for future informatics …

Access to information and the ability to integrate and use information has changed how
individuals book travel, find information about prices and products, and compare and review …

Biomedical informatics pioneer Warner V. Slack, MD (1933–2018) is widely credited with
saying “Patients are the most underused resource in healthcare” in the 1970s. In a previous …

In their paper “Transforming Consumer Health Informatics through a Patient Framework:
connecting patients to context,” 1 Valdez and colleagues propose a “patient-work” …

In today's society, most people are both consumers of information technology and of health
care. Virtually every person has consumed health care and will consume more as one ages …

In their response to our original paper,“Transforming Consumer Health Informatics through a
Patient Work Framework: Connecting Patients to Context,” Marceglia and colleagues …

A “one-size-fits-all” application no longer works to meet user needs and expectations as
multiple factors dictate adoption by an individual user, including costs, efficacy, and …

Biomedical and health informatics (BMHI) as an interdisciplinary field of research and
practice is growing, and research topics and trends are evolving rapidly. The future of the …