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Marion J Ball1, Gabriela Mustata Wilson2, William M Tierney3
1Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering, Presidential Distinguished Professor, and Executive Director, MICHI, University of Texas at Arlington, United States.
Background:
The National Library of Medicine's Integrated Academic/Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) initiative played a central role in the evolution of health informatics over the project's lifetime (1983-2009) and continues to do so.
Aim:
Our objective is to demonstrate how IAIMS and two key IAIMS concepts, integration and outreach, have functioned at very different times during this evolutionary process.
Approach:
Using a framework drawn from Lorenzi and Stead's 2021 history of IAIMS, we examine the role of integration and outreach in work at the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) in the early 1980s and at the University of Texas Arlington (UTA) in 2020.
Results:
Guided by these concepts, UMB implemented a campus-wide information utility, while UTA established a center to accelerate research and innovation.
Conclusions:
Outreach and integration have been formative in the evolution of health informatics and will continue to hold their power.
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