Summary
Using the knowledge of informatics to promote a healthier community and monitor disease outbreaks is the future of community and public health (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). Community health is focused on populations. Public health preparedness will allow health care providers the tools for early detection of potential health threats. Early detection of possible outbreaks is achieved by observing pattern recognition in reported data. Envision an electronic health record designed to automatically send outbreak alerts to public health departments and provide treatment recommendation for a variety of health concerns. Public health informatics strives to ensure that health data systems meet the needs of organizations and communities. Public health data disbursed for regional, national and global health planning and management provide methods for public health surveillance. Risk assessments provide information on identifying factors leading to illness, injury or death (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). Risk assessment may be needed for recognizing a potential threat to a community such as a terrorist threat. Health risk assessments are used to evaluate the benefit and exposure to potential hazards. Health risk assessments are constantly evolving based on sound science and profession expertise. Let us band together to provide information for disease prevention to promote healthy communities. Planning, evaluating and implementing public health intervention to communities for the purpose of promoting health. The development of a decision support system with an alert system to notify clinicians of possible disease outbreak at the point of access for health care will take public health and nursing informatics to another level.
Public Health Data Informatics sites:
National Public Health Performance Standards Program
Healthy People 2020. Health Communication and Health Information Technology
Using the knowledge of informatics to promote a healthier community and monitor disease outbreaks is the future of community and public health (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). Community health is focused on populations. Public health preparedness will allow health care providers the tools for early detection of potential health threats. Early detection of possible outbreaks is achieved by observing pattern recognition in reported data. Envision an electronic health record designed to automatically send outbreak alerts to public health departments and provide treatment recommendation for a variety of health concerns. Public health informatics strives to ensure that health data systems meet the needs of organizations and communities. Public health data disbursed for regional, national and global health planning and management provide methods for public health surveillance. Risk assessments provide information on identifying factors leading to illness, injury or death (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). Risk assessment may be needed for recognizing a potential threat to a community such as a terrorist threat. Health risk assessments are used to evaluate the benefit and exposure to potential hazards. Health risk assessments are constantly evolving based on sound science and profession expertise. Let us band together to provide information for disease prevention to promote healthy communities. Planning, evaluating and implementing public health intervention to communities for the purpose of promoting health. The development of a decision support system with an alert system to notify clinicians of possible disease outbreak at the point of access for health care will take public health and nursing informatics to another level.
Public Health Data Informatics sites:
National Public Health Performance Standards Program
Healthy People 2020. Health Communication and Health Information Technology