JBI and ACI Journal Spotlight Session: Strengthening foundational, translational, and application-oriented biomedical and clinical informatics research
Presentation Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Moderator: Mor Peleg, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI
University of Haifa
Biomedical informatics research develops novel methods that analyze and apply biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving and decision making, to improve human health. The two sides —foundation and applications— are addressed, in a complementary way, by the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) and Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI).
The range of biomedical informatics methods is wide, and covers artificial intelligence (AI) and data science (DS) methods (which together account for the vast majority of submissions), clinical decision-support, knowledge representation, terminologies and ontologies, databases and information retrieval, clinical informatics, population health, and translational bioinformatics. Application areas range from bioinformatics to clinical and public health informatics and span the spectrum from the molecular to population levels of health and biomedicine.
The recent advances and immense potential of applications in healthcare have prompted the editors and publishers of JBI and ACI to review the scope and boundaries of their scientific journals. Papers that focus on AI for healthcare require more than mere technical evaluation of performance; deep understanding of the clinical problem and setting addressed, rigorous evaluation with real-world clinical data sets, validation of the models with clinicians, and discussion of how the methods could be integrated into clinical care, is needed. Due to the availability and success of generative AI method, the journals also developed policies regarding the use of generative models in paper preparation and review.
This session will bring together editors of JBI and ACI with the audience for a session that will allow attendees to become familiar with the journals’ content, editorial policy, and major challenges. In a brief introductory round, JBI Editor in Chief Mor Peleg, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI and ACI Associate Editor Sue Feldman will present their journals by describing content, ideal submissions, the various manuscript types that the journal supports, and publication formats. Editors will discuss aspects and challenges of submissions including plagiarism and ethical violations in the time of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models. The review process and time to first decision, rejection rates, average number of revisions and reviews will also be described.
JBI Deputy Editor Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI and ACI Associate Editor Peter Elkin will discuss opportunities to become more involved as reviewers, guest editors, editorial board reviewers and associate editors. They will also present the process of submitting special issue proposals, finally introducing the special issues currently accepting papers. JBI Associate Editor Hua Xu and ACI Associate Student Editorial Board Editor Laurie Lovett Novak will present examples of AI-related research that serve as good examples of research that is appropriate for publication in JBI or ACI.
The session will end with a Q&A, followed by a panel of the presenters, discussing new directions for research in informatics, with a focus on AI and data science in healthcare.
Additional Speaker:
Laurie Lovett Novak, PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Dept of Biomedical Informatics
Speaker(s):
Mor Peleg, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI
University of Haifa
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD
University of Washington
Hua Xu, Ph.D
Yale University
Sue Feldman, RN, MEd, PhD, FACMI
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Peter Elkin, MD, MACP, FACMI, FNYAM, FAMIA, FIAHSI
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Presentation Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Moderator: Mor Peleg, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI
University of Haifa
Biomedical informatics research develops novel methods that analyze and apply biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving and decision making, to improve human health. The two sides —foundation and applications— are addressed, in a complementary way, by the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) and Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI).
The range of biomedical informatics methods is wide, and covers artificial intelligence (AI) and data science (DS) methods (which together account for the vast majority of submissions), clinical decision-support, knowledge representation, terminologies and ontologies, databases and information retrieval, clinical informatics, population health, and translational bioinformatics. Application areas range from bioinformatics to clinical and public health informatics and span the spectrum from the molecular to population levels of health and biomedicine.
The recent advances and immense potential of applications in healthcare have prompted the editors and publishers of JBI and ACI to review the scope and boundaries of their scientific journals. Papers that focus on AI for healthcare require more than mere technical evaluation of performance; deep understanding of the clinical problem and setting addressed, rigorous evaluation with real-world clinical data sets, validation of the models with clinicians, and discussion of how the methods could be integrated into clinical care, is needed. Due to the availability and success of generative AI method, the journals also developed policies regarding the use of generative models in paper preparation and review.
This session will bring together editors of JBI and ACI with the audience for a session that will allow attendees to become familiar with the journals’ content, editorial policy, and major challenges. In a brief introductory round, JBI Editor in Chief Mor Peleg, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI and ACI Associate Editor Sue Feldman will present their journals by describing content, ideal submissions, the various manuscript types that the journal supports, and publication formats. Editors will discuss aspects and challenges of submissions including plagiarism and ethical violations in the time of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models. The review process and time to first decision, rejection rates, average number of revisions and reviews will also be described.
JBI Deputy Editor Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI and ACI Associate Editor Peter Elkin will discuss opportunities to become more involved as reviewers, guest editors, editorial board reviewers and associate editors. They will also present the process of submitting special issue proposals, finally introducing the special issues currently accepting papers. JBI Associate Editor Hua Xu and ACI Associate Student Editorial Board Editor Laurie Lovett Novak will present examples of AI-related research that serve as good examples of research that is appropriate for publication in JBI or ACI.
The session will end with a Q&A, followed by a panel of the presenters, discussing new directions for research in informatics, with a focus on AI and data science in healthcare.
Additional Speaker:
Laurie Lovett Novak, PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Dept of Biomedical Informatics
Speaker(s):
Mor Peleg, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI
University of Haifa
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD
University of Washington
Hua Xu, Ph.D
Yale University
Sue Feldman, RN, MEd, PhD, FACMI
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Peter Elkin, MD, MACP, FACMI, FNYAM, FAMIA, FIAHSI
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
JBI and ACI Journal Spotlight Session: Strengthening foundational, translational, and application-oriented biomedical and clinical informatics research
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