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Week 6 Readings Public and Population Health Informatics - Coggle Diagram
Week 6 Readings
Public and Population Health Informatics
Integration of Electronic Data
Integration of electronic electronic health records to meet public health goals
Policy Shifts
Recent changes in policies and incentives have pushed healthcare workers to integrate more data into their work environment
Big Data Threads
allows inclusion of diverse data like geographic data systems, social media and use these systems to track disease patterns , identify risk factors, and improve surveillance
Complications in surveillance
Data Silos: Hospitals operate on separate data silos or their own servers so they cannot reach other records of patients if needed
Interoperability: Ensuring earth data systems that can communicate is a problem in healthcare that has yet to be solved.
Emerging Trends
Pubic Health 3.0
Promotes cross-sector collaboration and includes use informatics to address community needs
Mobile Health
Expansion of real time surveillance, helping track diseases like influenza, and identify health trends
Data Visualization
Tools are developing to make presenting data to health officials and policy makers, making the data easier to interpret
Concerns
Data Privacy
Concerns of maintaining privacy of personal health information as increase of sharing health data is trending
Sustainability
Concerns of keeping consistent funding and support needed to run these systems