A ride in the time machine: Information management capabilities health departments will need

S. Foldy, S. Grannis, D. Ross and Trenton Smith ()

American Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 104, issue 9, 1592-1600

Abstract: We have proposed needed information management capabilities for future US health departments predicated on trends in health care reform and health information technology. Regardless of whether health departments provide direct clinical services (and many will), they will manage unprecedented quantities of sensitive information for the public health core functions of assurance and assessment, including populationlevel health surveillance and metrics. Absent improved capabilities, health departments risk vestigial status, with consequences for vulnerable populations. Developments in electronic health records, interoperability and information exchange, public information sharing, decision support, and cloud technologies can support information management if health departments have appropriate capabilities. The need for national engagement in and consensus on these capabilities and their importance to health department sustainability make them appropriate for consideration in the context of accreditation.

Keywords: article; consumer; decision support system; electronic medical record; health care policy; health survey; human; information system; medical information system; methodology; organization and management; public health service; United States, Consumer Participation; Decision Support Systems, Clinical; Electronic Health Records; Health Information Management; Humans; Information Systems; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Population Surveillance; Public Health Administration; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301956

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