Informatics
Presenter: Jeff Stover MPH
Objectives:
After this set of lectures students will be able to describe and discuss
- The definition of health informatics
- The scope of activities encompassed by a SHD informatics program
- The state health department network
- Linkages between state, local and federal health and environmental agencies
- Types of data collected and managed
- Special informatics programs (immunization registries, cancer registries, vital data registries)
- Use if data in program evaluation
- Pitfalls in data collection
- Types of hardware and software standardized within health agencies
- Resources available to local managers
- The future of informatics
Key Words:
Data systems, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), state networks, data transfer district to district, state to federal, future technology, public health linkages, district intranet
Reading:
Governing by Network, Pages 16-21 and 119. Essentials of Public Health Management, Chapter 7 and 31. Buttery Essays. #14.
Before the Nov 14 session please scan this article. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/296/18/2255 If you need to sign in, get it through the EJournal link at the TMLlibrary.
Resources:
Jeff Stover Slides Handout, DHHS Informatics web site and this page on the site,
The Power of Personal Health Records-Audio report from the RWJF
public health informatics training. Public Health Foundation Informatics Support
IOM Report "Who will keep the public healthy" Nov 2002 Page 65 (lower half.)
Health Information Technology
in the United States: Executive Summary; (pages 3-9) Massachusetts General Hospital and the RWJF, June 2006
Dr, Buttery's Clinical Information Research in practice in 1963. Now, 45 years later, very few have even reached this elementary stage of data collectimn about their practices. While NAMCS provides a snapshot of what goes on in the the office it does not help evaluate the quality of an individual practice, nor help the practitioner improve skills.
Presentations:
Hour 1 What is Informatics
Hour 2 Public Health Linkages
Hour 3 How to select an IT Provider
Discussion Board. What are the most important issue emerging in public health informatics and why?