RT Book, Section
A1 Zheng, Kai
A1 Zhao, Junying
A2 Boulton, Matthew L.
A2 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182681392
T1 Public Health Informatics
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259644511
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182681392
RD 2024/04/18
AB The  ability  to  collect,  process,  and  act  upon  data  is  central  to  the  mission  of  public  health.  In  the  past  several  decades,  the  advancement  in  informatics,  particularly  in  the  areas  of  electronic  data  exchange  and  advanced  data  analytics,  has  afforded  public  health  workers  and  academicians  an  unprecedented  set  of  tools  to  assemble  and  make  sense  of  large  volumes  of  data  from  diverse  settings.  This  capability  is  further  extended  thanks  to  the  now  nearly  ubiquitous  adoption  of  electronic  health  records  (EHRs)  in  U.S.  hospitals  and  clinics,1,2  higher  performance  computing  and  faster  computer  networks,  and  increased  citizen  participation  in  public  health  activities  on  social  media.  In  this  digital  era,  informatics  has  undoubtedly  become  a  core  competency  for  leaders  and  practitioners  in  public  and  population  health.