ArticleEGEMS (Washington, DC)2013
Applications of electronic health information in public health: uses, opportunities & barriers.
Article in EGEMS (Washington, DC), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Leveraging public health's participation in a Health Information Exchange to improve communicable disease reporting.Online journal of public health informatics · 2017Article
- Identification of patients with congenital hemophilia in a large electronic health record database.Journal of blood medicine · 2017Article
- Identification of people with acquired hemophilia in a large electronic health record database.Journal of blood medicine · 2017Article
- The Need for a Definition of Big Data for Nursing Science: A Case Study of Disaster Preparedness.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Review
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Abstract
Electronic health information systems can reshape the practice of public health including public health surveillance, disease and injury investigation and control, decision making, quality assurance, and policy development. While these opportunities are potentially transformative, and the federal program for the Meaningful Use (MU) of electronic health records (EHRs) has included important public health components, significant barriers remain. Unlike incentives in the clinical care system, scant funding is available to public health departments to develop the necessary information infrastructure and workforce capacity to capitalize on EHRs, personal health records, or Big Data. Current EHR systems are primarily built to serve clinical systems and practice rather than being structured for public health use. In addition, there are policy issues concerning how broadly the data can be used by public health officials. As these issues are resolved and workable solutions emerge, they should yield a more efficient and effective public health system.
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