141st APHA Annual Meeting

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Emerging role of health information technology in public health

Monday, November 4, 2013

Sukhen Dey , Editor, Strategic Wisdom, Louisville, KY
The author discusses a starting-point premise of Health Information Technology infrastructure which is expanding rapidly in public health practices in the United States and potentially in other developed nations. For example, we find continuous expansion of Electronic Health Record applications with strong push from the government sector for Physicians, Hospitals and other providers to convert paper based practices to digital and an interoperable framework. Using Health Exchanges, soon EHRs are expected to directly transmit patient and disease based data to public health registries which currently is a rather manual process. We also find expanding role of telemedicine technology for patient outreach as well as in Disaster Medicine. Last but not least, while the basic premises of public health is expanding, in this age of digital “big data” analytics, the role of Information Technology is undergoing new applications, technology and strategies to improve population health, health outcomes and health registries.

Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Public health or related education
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Explain the emerging role of Health Information Technology in public health.

Keywords: Health Management Information Systems, Public Health Informatics

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Dr. Sukhen Dey served as a Faculty of Computing Science and Informatics at Indiana University Southeast and teaches CME courses in HIT area. He holds a doctorate degree in Interdisciplinary Science, an Education Specialist degree and an MBA from the University of Louisville. He has extensive experience in systems analysis and design, statistical analysis and Electronic Health Record systems. He has published numerous articles and presented at several national and international conferences.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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