title: A proposed national research and development agenda for population health informatics: summary recommendations from a national expert workshop.
abstract: The Johns Hopkins Center for Population Health IT hosted a 1-day symposium sponsored by the National Library of Medicine to help develop a national research and development (R&D) agenda for the emerging field of population health informatics (PopHI).
  
  
  
  The symposium provided a venue for national experts to brainstorm, identify, discuss, and prioritize the top challenges and opportunities in the PopHI field, as well as R&D areas to address these.
  
  
  
  This manuscript summarizes the findings of the PopHI symposium. The symposium participants' recommendations have been categorized into 13 overarching themes, including policy alignment, data governance, sustainability and incentives, and standards/interoperability.
  
  
  
  The proposed consensus-based national agenda for PopHI consisted of 18 priority recommendations grouped into 4 broad goals: (1) Developing a standardized collaborative framework and infrastructure, (2) Advancing technical tools and methods, (3) Developing a scientific evidence and knowledge base, and (4) Developing an appropriate framework for policy, privacy, and sustainability. There was a substantial amount of agreement between all the participants on the challenges and opportunities for PopHI as well as on the actions that needed to be taken to address these.
  
  
  
  PopHI is a rapidly growing field that has emerged to address the population dimension of the Triple Aim. The proposed PopHI R&D agenda is comprehensive and timely, but should be considered only a starting-point, given that ongoing developments in health policy, population health management, and informatics are very dynamic, suggesting that the agenda will require constant monitoring and updating.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Population Health Information Technology, Baltimore, MD, USA, kharrazi@jhu.edu.|Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Hadi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kharrazi
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Population Health Information Technology, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Elyse C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Lasser
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Baltimore, MD, USA.|National Health Information Infrastructure Advisors, Arlington, VA, USA.
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Yasnoff
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Population Health Information Technology, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Loonsk
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Population Health Information Technology, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Aneel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Advani
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Harold P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Lehmann
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Population Health Information Technology, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: David C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Chin
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Population Health Information Technology, Baltimore, MD, USA.|Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Jonathan P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Weiner
mesh_terms: D006291:Health Policy; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D000075485:Population Health; D014481:United States
keywords: informatics agenda; population health informatics; public health informatics