Publish or Perish: : Meet the Editors Part Two Paul Wallace MD Senior Scholar, AcademyHealth Executive Editor, eGEMs Paul.Wallace@academyhealth.org https://egems.academyhealth.org/
eGEMs Gen Genera rating Evid idence & Methods to im impr prove pa patie tient ou outcomes • 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.” https://egems.academyhealth.org/
“Street Knowledge…” John Steiner MD KP Colorado https://egems.academyhealth.org/
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 https://egems.academyhealth.org/
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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 https://egems.academyhealth.org/
eGEMs v2.0 .0 https://egems.academyhealth.org/
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 https://egems.academyhealth.org/
Review criteria Senior editor Peer-reviewer • Does the submission focus on • Usefulness: useful and clearly lessons learned about articulates a reasonable electronic health data? approach or method to collecting, analyzing, • Is the submission relevant to disseminating or using CER, PCOR, QI, or the Learning electronic clinical data or how Health System? to overcome a challenge or a • Which EDM Forum domain(s) barrier does this address? • Credibility: Sufficient • Analytic Methods information and reasoning to • Clinical Informatics validate the approach • Governance • Innovation: Novelty and • The Learning Health System? creativity in addressing a key issue, challenge or barrier https://egems.academyhealth.org/
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… • ????? https://egems.academyhealth.org/
“Improve the use of electronic health data to improve health care” Thanks… https://egems.academyhealth.org/ https://egems.academyhealth.org/
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