Resuming HealthCare Informatics Research after CoViD-19: the HealthCare System Perspective

The CoViD-19 pandemic tested many research endeavors and revealed limitations, especially where research results had an immediate impact on the social and health habits of people. The research community is called to perform a deep analysis of steps already taken, and to rethink future steps to capitalize on the lessons learned from the pandemic. In this direction, on June 9th-11th, 2022, a group of twelve international health informatics researchers, including 4 Editors-in-Chief of informatics journals, met in Rochester (MN). The meeting was initiated by the Institute for Healthcare Informatics (IHI) and hosted by Mayo Clinic Institute. The researchers discussed and proposed a new research agenda for biomedical and health informatics, in light of the changes and the lessons learned from the pandemic. This panel reports about the research and healthcare policy directions with a greater emphasis on the implications on the healthcare system perspective.