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      Urgent Challenges for Local Public Health Informatics

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      Journal: Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
      Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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          This editorial highlights the urgent challenges for local public health informatics and provides solutions to face these challenges.

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          The role of public health informatics in enhancing public health surveillance.

          Thomas G. Savel, Seth Foldy (2012)
          Public health surveillance has benefitted from, and has often pioneered, informatics analyses and solutions. However, the field of informatics also serves other facets of public health including emergency response, environmental health, nursing, and administration. Public health informatics has been defined as the systematic application of information and computer science and technology to public health practice, research, and learning. It is an interdisciplinary profession that applies mathematics, engineering, information science, and related social sciences (e.g., decision analysis) to important public health problems and processes. Public health informatics is a subdomain of the larger field known as biomedical or health informatics. Health informatics is not synonymous with the term health information technology (IT). Although the concept of health IT encompasses the use of technology in the field of health care, one can think of health informatics as defining the science, the how and why, behind health IT. For example, health IT professionals should be able to resolve infrastructure problems with a network connection, whereas trained public health informaticians should be able to support public health decisions by facilitating the availability of timely, relevant, and high-quality information. In other words, they should always be able to provide advice on methods for achieving a public health goal faster, better, or at a lower cost by leveraging computer science, information science, or technology.
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            Interoperability of Information Systems Managed and Used by the Local Health Departments

            Gulzar Shah, Jonathon P. Leider, Huabin Luo … (2016)
            This research study describes the level of interoperability of local health department information systems and identifies factors associated with lack of interoperability.
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              Public Health Staff Development Needs in Informatics: Findings From a National Survey of Local Health Departments

              Barbara L Massoudi, Kelley Chester, Gulzar Shah (2016)
              This article describes the use of a nationwide survey of local health departments (LHDs) to learn about their workforce development needs related to informatics.
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Public Health Manag Pract
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Public Health Manag Pract
                Journal ID (publisher-id): JPUMP
                Title: Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
                Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
                ISSN (Print): 1078-4659
                ISSN (Electronic): 1550-5022
                Publication date (Print): November 2016
                Publication date (Electronic): 30 September 2016
                Volume: 22
                Issue: Suppl 6 , Public Health Informatics
                Pages: S6-S8
                Affiliations
                Marion County Public Health Department, Indianapolis, Indiana (Dr Gibson); Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Health Policy and Management, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro (Dr Shah); International Society for Disease Surveillance, Brighton, Massachusetts (Dr Streichert); and Southern Nevada Health District, Las Vegas (Ms Verchick).
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                [*] Correspondence: Gulzar H. Shah, PhD, MStat, MSS, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Health Policy and Management, Georgia Southern University, PO Box 8015, Statesboro, GA 30460 ( gshah@ 123456georgiasouthern.edu ).
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                Accession ID: jpump2206ps6
                DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000479
                PMC ID: 5049959
                PubMed ID: 27684620
                SO-VID: 9820d2e9-873d-4f6e-af8a-5d5404773574
                Copyright © © 2016 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
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