Analysis of the Hotspots and Mainstream knowledge groups in Chinese regional medical information research field / 中华医学科研管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective Current study used quantitative research methods to reveal the regional medical information research in hotspots, and summarize the mainstream knowledge base to provide the reference for researchers in the field.Methods A systematic search was conducted to find publications in CNKI, Wanfang Database and PubMed.Bibliometrics method, social network analysis, coword analysis, principal component analysis and multidimensional scaling analysis were used in this study.Results ① total 11,482 articles published from 1984 to 2013 were screened out.The development of research publications showed an increasing trend, and the papers were distributed in 1233 types of journals.The number of authors who located in Beijing, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shanghai,Shandong ranked top five.② The top 59 high frequency key words were identified that representing the hot contents in regional health information technology research field, and was used to build knowledge network map.Among them, HIS, electronic medical records, hospital information technology,information technology were at the core of this research area.③ We summarized research and development in the field of nine major mainstream knowledge base include research on electronic medical records, medical personnel, information systems, information security, information networks, information sharing, information integration, information technology, and information management, resident' s health record related studies;qualitative analysis and problem-oriented research;HIS and telemedicine-related research;community related research, two-way referral related research, health care reform and cloud computing-related research, telemedicine related research and V43 related research.Conclusions The development of regional medical information research has good momentum and closely follow the international trend, but the research contents and methods are still distance from international standard..Research mostly focused on hospital information system construction, regional research and applied research are weak and need to be further improved.