Our field of biomedical and health informatics frequently considers the question of the impact of our research and its application on discovery, care delivery, health, and health equity. In this editorial I highlight 5 papers that illustrate scalable tools and standards-based infrastructure. Such innovations are components of the essential foundation for realizing the impact of informatics. Two papers address the critical issue of privacy preservation in secondary use of electronic health record (EHR) data,^1,2 while a third focuses on information retrieval for COVID-19-related questions.³ Two additional papers focus on data definitions, codified vocabularies, and other components that enable semantic interoperability and their particular role in the COVID-19 pandemic.^4,5

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信息学影响需要有效、可扩展的工具和基于标准的基础设施

我们的生物医学和健康信息学领域经常考虑我们的研究及其应用对发现、护理提供、健康和健康公平的影响问题。在这篇社论中，我重点介绍了 5 篇论文，它们说明了可扩展的工具和基于标准的基础设施。这些创新是实现信息学影响的重要基础的组成部分。两篇论文解决二次利用的电子健康记录（EHR）的数据，隐私保护的关键问题^{1 ，2}，而第三个重点信息检索的COVID-19相关的问题。³另外两篇论文侧重于数据定义、编码词汇和其他实现语义互操作性的组件及其在 COVID-19 大流行中的特殊作用。^{4 , 5}