A Ride in the Time Machine

Information Management Capabilities Health Departments Will Need

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ID11033831
AuthorsSeth Foldy (0000-0002-5990-5512, When this article was written, Seth Foldy was with the Public Health Surveillance and Informatics Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Shaun Grannis was with the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis. David Ross was with the Public Health Informatics Institute, Atlanta, GA. Torney Smith was with the Regional Health Department, Spokane, WA.), Shaun J Grannis (0000-0002-8093-6639, The Centers), Shaun Grannis (When this article was written, Seth Foldy was with the Public Health Surveillance and Informatics Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Shaun Grannis was with the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis. David Ross was with the Public Health Informatics Institute, Atlanta, GA. Torney Smith was with the Regional Health Department, Spokane, WA.), David A Ro (0000-0001-7426-9561, The Centers), David Ross (0000-0002-1917-1411, When this article was written, Seth Foldy was with the Public Health Surveillance and Informatics Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Shaun Grannis was with the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis. David Ross was with the Public Health Informatics Institute, Atlanta, GA. Torney Smith was with the Regional Health Department, Spokane, WA.), Torney Smith (When this article was written, Seth Foldy was with the Public Health Surveillance and Informatics Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Shaun Grannis was with the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis. David Ross was with the Public Health Informatics Institute, Atlanta, GA. Torney Smith was with the Regional Health Department, Spokane, WA.)
Year2014
Volume104
Issue9
Pages1592-1600
Publication date2014-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2014.301956
PMID25033122
OpenAlexW2091211515
LanguageEN
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We have proposed needed information management capabilities for future US health departments predicated on trends in health care reform and health information technology. Regardless of whether health departments provide direct clinical services (and many will), they will manage unprecedented quantities of sensitive information for the public health core functions of assurance and assessment, including population-level health surveillance and metrics. Absent improved capabilities, health departments risk vestigial status, with consequences for vulnerable populations. Developments in electronic health records, interoperability and information exchange, public information sharing, decision support, and cloud technologies can support information management if health departments have appropriate capabilities. The need for national engagement in and consensus on these capabilities and their importance to health department sustainability make them appropriate for consideration in the context of accreditation

Accreditation · Business · Clinical decision support system · Cloud computing · Context (archaeology) · Health care · Health information · Health information exchange · Health information technology · HRHIS · Information management · Information sharing · International health · Interoperability · Knowledge management · Medical education · Political science · Population health · Public health · Public health informatics · Computer Science · Electronic Health Records Systems · Ethics in Clinical Research · Medicine · Nursing · Public Health Policies and Education · Health Policy

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