Public Health Informatics and Information Systems / Edition 2

by J.A. Magnuson, Paul C. Fu, Jr.

Overview

This revised edition covers all aspects of public health informatics and discusses the creation and management of an information technology infrastructure that is essential in linking state and local organizations in their efforts to gather data for the surveillance and prevention. Public health officials will have to understand basic principles of information resource management in order to make the appropriate technology choices that will guide the future of their organizations. Public health continues to be at the forefront of modern medicine, given the importance of implementing a population-based health approach and to addressing chronic health conditions. This book provides informatics principles and examples of practice in a public health context. In doing so, it clarifies the ways in which newer information technologies will improve individual and community health status. This book's primary purpose is to consolidate key information and promote a strategic approach to information systems and development, making it a resource for use by faculty and students of public health, as well as the practicing public health professional. Chapter highlights include: The Governmental and Legislative Context of Informatics; Assessing the Value of Information Systems; Ethics, Information Technology, and Public Health; and Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security. Review questions are featured at the end of every chapter. Aside from its use for public health professionals, the book will be used by schools of public health, clinical and public health nurses and students, schools of social work, allied health, and environmental sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447168140
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	09/21/2016
Series:	Health Informatics
Edition description:	Second Edition 2014
Pages:	666
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

About the Author

J.A. Magnuson is an informaticist with exceptional public health, teaching, research, and management skills. Diverse experience including academia (professor), state public health (health informatics architect), and private industry (Director of Research & Development).

Dr. Paul C. Fu, Jr. is Director, Clinical Informatics, and Director, Pediatric General Pediatrics Inpatient Service at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He was previously Chief Medical Information Officer at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, one of the largest public health service delivery systems in the country. Dr. Fu also leads the Center for Biomedical and Public Health Informatics at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute.

Table of Contents

Public Health Informatics: an Introduction.- History of Public Health Information Systems and Informatics.- Public Health Informatics in the Larger Context of Biomedical and Health Informatics.- Governmental and Legislative Context for Informatics.- Role of Informatics in Bridging Public and Population Health.- Information Infrastructure to Support Public Health.- Data Sources and Data Tools: Preparing for the Open Data Ecosystem.- Public Health Information Standards.- Privacy and Confidentiality of Public Health Information.- Health Systems Security.- Electronic Health Records: Origination, Adoption, and Progression.- Public Health Analytics and Big Data.- Project Management and Public Health Informatics.- Informatics in Disease Prevention and Epidemiology.- Public Health Laboratories.- The US National Vital Statistics System.- Syndromic Surveillance – a Practical Application of Informatics.- New Means of Data Collection and Accessibility.- Interoperability and Health Information Exchange for Public Health.- Geographic Information Systems.- Public Health Decision Support Systems.- Local and Regional Public Health Informatics.- Public Health Informatics and the American Indian/Alaska Native Populations: Improving Community Health Despite Challenges.- Advancing Informatics Policy and Practice: A State Perspective.- National Public Health Informatics, United States.- Perspectives on Global Public Health Informatics.- Improving immunization through informatics: Perspectives from the BID Initiative Partnership with Tanzania and Zambia.- Public Health Informatics: the Path Forward.