Innovation is key for advancing the science of biomedical and health informatics and for publishing in JAMIA

摘要

Innovation is key for scientific advancement. One of the most common reasons that well-written manuscripts are rejected from Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) is lack of innovation from the perspective of biomedical and health informatics. Oxford defines innovation (in something) as “a new idea, way of doing something, etc. that has been introduced or discovered.”1 Innovation in biomedical and health informatics can take multiple forms (eg, conceptual, topical, methodological, or application domains) and is relevant across manuscript types. In this editorial, I highlight 5 articles that illustrate different aspects of innovation.