Comparative Review of Research on Health Information Technology in Biomedical Informatics and Human-Computer Interaction

摘要

This paper provides a comparative review of literature in Biomedical Informatics (BI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) communities that conducted human-subject studies of health information technology (HIT) to understand the kinds of knowledge these two fields develop and disseminate. We systematically searched 8 databases to retrieve relevant articles published between 2007 and 2016. Articles involving human-subject studies of HIT were eligible for inclusion. Among 1,355 articles identified by the search strategy, 593 articles were selected for final analysis. Text mining techniques were used to cluster the selected articles into five themes, followed by a thematic analysis of randomly selected 3 articles per cluster through which a hierarchical taxonomy of research areas was created. The results illustrate that BI contributes mainly to generating knowledge associated with the use of HIT in clinical settings, while HCI focuses primarily on the design and evaluation of personal healthcare applications. We believe that better understanding and bringing together the strengths of each field's perspectives would yield results that are more generalizable and have greater potential impact in healthcare research.