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Publish or Perish: : Meet the Editors Part Two

Paul Wallace MD Senior Scholar, AcademyHealth Executive Editor, eGEMs Paul.Wallace@academyhealth.org

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eGEMs

Gen Genera rating Evid idence & Methods to im impr prove pa patie tient ou

• utcomes
• Peer-reviewed, open access journal
• Founded 2013
• Goal: Improve dissemination, transparency, and

reproducibility of research using electronic health data

• Niche: “While researchers have always been able to

share study results through existing peer-reviewed journals, the brilliance behind those results is often left in the shadows without a way for the community to disseminate the methods in sufficient detail to replicate and/or adapt them.”

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“Street Knowledge…”

John Steiner MD KP Colorado

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The origin story…

• The Electronic Data Methods

Forum

• AHRQ funding with AcademyHealth

as Prime 2010-2017

• “Improve the use of electronic health

data to improve health care”

• Key activities
• Link 11 AHRQ Funded development

and demonstration projects

• Steering and Stakeholder Groups
• Build a Learning Community
• Connect, Collaborate and

Communicate… examples:

• Concordium
• CIELO data and software

sharing platform

• Governance Toolkit
• eGEMs

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eGEMs

• V 1.0 2013-2017
• Free, Open access
• Grant funded
• Volunteer editorial board and paper reviewers
• ~170 individual papers accepted and published
• Special issues, including:
• Data governance to support health and discovery
• Evidence into Action: Improving User Interface to Improve

Patient Outcomes

• Best of Concordium
• > 170,000 downloads worldwide

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eGEMs v2.0 .0

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eGEMs v2.0 .0

• April 2017 - Present
• Free, Open access
• Editorially independent, within AcademyHealth
• Funded through Special Issues, Sponsored Recurring Sections

and Author Processing Charges for individual papers accepted

• Volunteer editorial board and paper reviewers
• New submission, editorial and publishing platform- Ubiquity

Press

• Call for Papers
• Addressing clinical data quality challenges
• Taking advantage of patient reported outcomes for research

and care improvement

• Advancing natural language processing
• Emerging lessons from mHealth and telehealth
• Increasing health data interoperability

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Review criteria

Senior editor

• Does the submission focus on

lessons learned about electronic health data?

• Is the submission relevant to

CER, PCOR, QI, or the Learning Health System?

• Which EDM Forum domain(s)

does this address?

• Analytic Methods
• Clinical Informatics
• Governance
• The Learning Health System?

Peer-reviewer

• Usefulness: useful and clearly

articulates a reasonable approach or method to collecting, analyzing, disseminating or using electronic clinical data or how to overcome a challenge or a barrier

• Credibility: Sufficient

information and reasoning to validate the approach

• Innovation: Novelty and

creativity in addressing a key issue, challenge or barrier

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Trends, Traps and Tips…

• Focus on the generalizable: ‘how you and others can

approach a problem or challenge’, not ‘what you did’

• Patients…
• Engagement
• The patient perspective
• Systematic incorporation
• Governance (aka Privacy)
• Personalization
• PROs
• (The N of 1- Phenotypes)
• Systems…
• Innovative data linkages and their use
• Governance
• Providers…
• ?????

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“Improve the use of electronic health data to improve health care”

Thanks…

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