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Informatics as a Strategic Priority and Collaborative Processes to Build a Smarter, Forward-Looking Health Department

Health information is critical to surveillance and assessment of public health threats, population and disease trends, management of clinical services, completion of immunizations, identification of disease trends, and communication with community partners. This article explores how a medium-sized l...

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Autores principales: Lovelace, Kay, Shah, Gulzar H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5049975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27684625
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000000452
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Sumario:Health information is critical to surveillance and assessment of public health threats, population and disease trends, management of clinical services, completion of immunizations, identification of disease trends, and communication with community partners. This article explores how a medium-sized local health department using best practices in informatics could implement and use informatics to improve the practice of public health.