Title:
On Appropriate evaluation methodologies in the context of using both accident and health record data
Short Description and Focus of Chapter:
In the era of digitization it has become realistic to integrate data recorded at the accident sites with data in health records of persons being involved in such accidents. Accident and emergency informatics, a novel discipline in medical informatics, aims at integrating such data of accident sites with health records data of persons being involved in such accidents. Research in this discipline has started. It is assumed that including both data sources will lead to better support and curation. In this new situation we have to raise the question on whether the existing and well-established evaluation methodologies used in accident-centered research as well as in patient-centered research are sufficient and should also be used for such integrated data or whether they have to be modified or extended. In this chapter it will be outlined, which types of research questions are asked in this context, which study designs may fit in order to provide answers, and which information system architectures and infrastructures have to be used or established in order to be able to combine such data.
Corresponding Author:
Prof. Dr. Reinhold Haux
Position/Affiliation:
Former Executive Director, Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of
TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Germany
Short Biography:
Dr. Reinhold Haux is Professor for Medical Informatics at PLRI. His current research fields are health-enabling technologies, health information systems and management, medical data management (analysis and representation of medical data), as well as synergy and intelligence: extended interaction of living and non living entities.
Dr. Haux is author and editor of more than 400 publications. He has supervised about 50 doctoral theses.
For the term 2007-2010 he was President of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), an NGO of the World Health Organisation. From 2001-2015 he was editor of the journal Methods of Information in Medicine, where he is now senior consulting editor. He has, from 2001 to 2007, co-edited the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics.
Reinhold Haux is, among others, elected member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society and of the International Academy for Health Sciences Informatics, where he since 2018 serves as the Academy’s President. Further information are found (link: https://www.plri.de/en/team/reinhold-hauxhere.
Submission Status of Book Chapter:
Abstract: submitted
Draft: submitted
Final Version: submitted
