Informatics for public health and health system collaboration : Applications for the control of the current COVID-19 pandemic and the next one

© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association..

Public health faces unprecedented challenges in its efforts to control COVID-19 through a national vaccination campaign. Addressing these challenges will require fundamental changes to public health data systems. For example, of the core data systems for immunization campaigns is the immunization information system (IIS); however, IISs were designed for tracking the vaccinated, not finding the patients who are high risk and need to be vaccinated. Health systems have this data in their electronic health records (EHR) systems and often have a greater capacity for outreach. Clearly, a partnership is needed. However, successful collaborations will require public health to change from its historical hierarchical information supply chain model to an ecosystem model with a peer-to-peer exchange with population health providers. Examples of the types of informatics innovations necessary to support such an ecosystem include a national patient identifier, population-level data exchange for immunization data, and computable electronic quality measures. Rather than think of these components individually, a comprehensive approach to rapidly adaptable tools for collaboration is needed.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA - 28(2021), 8 vom: 30. Juli, Seite 1807-1811

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lenert, Leslie A [VerfasserIn]
Ding, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Jacobs, Jeff [VerfasserIn]

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Volltext

Themen:

Electronic clinical quality measure
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource
Journal Article
National patient identifier
Population health
Public health informatics
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 18.08.2021

Date Revised 18.08.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/jamia/ocab066

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM324493908