Broadening horizons: the case for capturing function and the role of health informatics in its use.
Denis R Newman-GriffisJulia PorcinoAyah ZiriklyThanh ThieuJonathan Camacho MaldonadoPei-Shu HoMin DingLeighton ChanElizabeth RaschPublished in: BMC public health (2019)
We recommend four specific actions to improve the capture and analysis of activity and participation information throughout the continuum of care: (1) make activity and participation annotation standards and datasets available to the broader research community; (2) define common research problems in automatically processing activity and participation information; (3) develop robust, machine-readable ontologies for function that describe the components of activity and participation information and their relationships; and (4) establish standards for how and when to document activity and participation status during clinical encounters. We further provide specific short-term goals to make significant progress in each of these areas within a reasonable time frame.