ROCKY MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH IN PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS

描述（由申请人提供）：落基山公共卫生信息学转化研究中心（RMC）的使命是将公共卫生信息学研究转化为公共卫生实践，以造福地方，地区和国家层面的个人和人群的健康。落基山中心包括一个多学科和跨学科的合作从业人员，卫生官员，研究人员和科学家的社区，隶属于卫生部门，学术机构，医疗保健系统和其他类型的组织。我们的社区成员致力于知识发现、技术开发、工具传播和区域间合作。RMC有三个突出的主题。首先，我们通过临床卫生信息交换和公共卫生网格等举措，促进组织伙伴关系，推动公共卫生实践的信息化转型。这些伙伴关系基于利益一致、共同愿景/价值观、共同目标、开放沟通、相互尊重和信任。其次，我们利用这些伙伴关系建立公共卫生，临床和社区环境，在其中进行基于实践的研究。这些研究项目的动机是公共卫生从业人员的关注和优先事项，反映了参与性研究原则的RMC的基础。第三，我们的工作有效地连接了信息学、公共卫生、流行病学、计算机科学、认知心理学和临床医学。RMC定期将这些学科的专家聚集在一起，支持各种协作环境中的互动。我们的经验是，有一个主题的重点是在学科之间的接口集中转化研究有助于产生创新。我们中心的每个项目都与信息学和公共卫生研究问题有关，这些问题与公共卫生直接相关。我们在这方面的经验已导致建立、培育和维持伙伴关系，我们期望在这一提议中继续这样做。加强信息科学和人口科学的中心耦合至关重要地推进公共卫生信息学作为一门学科本身。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the Rocky Mountain Center for Translational Research in Public Health Informatics (RMC) is to translate public health informatics research to public health practice to benefit the health of individuals and populations at local, regional, and national levels. The Rocky Mountain Center comprises a multi- and interdisciplinary community of collaborating practitioners, health officials, researchers, and scientists affiliated with health departments, academic institutions, health care systems, and other types of organizations. Our community members are committed to knowledge discovery, technology development, tool dissemination, and inter-regional collaboration. The RMC has three over-arching themes. First, we promote organizational partnerships to advance informatics-based transformation of public health practice through initiatives such as clinical health information exchange and public health grid. These partnerships are based on alignment of interests, shared vision/value, common goals, open communication, mutual respect, and trust. Second, we have leveraged these partnerships to establish public health, clinical, and community environments within which to conduct practice-based research. These research projects are motivated by the concerns and priorities of public health practitioners, reflecting the grounding of the RMC in participatory research principles. Third, our work effectively bridges informatics, public health, epidemiology, computer science, cognitive psychology, and clinical medicine. The RMC routinely brings together experts from each of these disciplines, supporting interactions across a variety of collaborative contexts. Our experience is that having a thematic emphasis on translational research that is focused at the interface between disciplines helps generate innovation. Each project affiliated with our Center is associated with both informatics and public health research questions that are of direct relevance to public health. Our experience with this approach has led to building, nurturing, and sustaining partnerships, which we expect to continue with this proposal. Intensifying the central coupling of information science and population science crucially advances public health informatics as a discipline in its own right.