Informatics in the Community and Health Information Systems

 • Reflect on the role of public health informatics and large data sets in your focus area? • How does telehealth relate to your focus area? What are some potential applications of telehealth technologies or strategies? If telehealth is not appropriate, why not? • Think about an information need in your focus area; similar to the discussion of case studies in class on 7/19 for organization-level informatics, briefly outline an approach you would take to define the information and technology requirements and then to design, implement and evaluate a potential solution. • Describe how Meaningful Use does or does not relate to your focus area? • How does the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan relate to your focus area? • Throughout your post, be sure to demonstrate your understanding and synthesis of readings and activities from Weeks 1-5 of the course (cite course readings, integrate explanations of concepts/theories into your description of informatics in your focus area). You should expand on the topics in the prompts where appropriate to include other concepts (e.g., surveillance, challenges with data repositories, measurement) from Weeks 4-5, particularly. • Include at least one additional informatics-focused reference. • You should also consider including any multimedia (images, figures, videos) that help to describe informatics in your focus area