Special online issue focusing on patients and caregivers

This special focus issue contains prime examples of how our field is changing—technology and processes increasingly involve patient interaction with systems such as patient portals and health promotion apps, and joint decision-making with health care providers. A report from AMIA’s policy meeting (see page e2) discusses the role our professional society can play in ensuring that systems—for care, collaboration, and communication—become more patient centered than they are today.This issue of JAMIA covers a large number of patient-centered topics. A brief communication by Gelb (see page e39) discusses how to direct the public to evidence-based content online. …