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Public health informatics has been defined as the systematic application of information and computer science and technology to public health practice, research, and learning. [1] It is one of the subdomains of health informatics , data management applied to medical systems.
The Public Health Information Network (PHIN) is a US national initiative, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for advancing fully capable and interoperable information systems in public health organizations. [1] The initiative involves establishing and implementing a framework for public health information systems.
This is a list of notable journals related to medical and health informatics. Impact Factors of scholarly journals publishing digital health (ehealth, mhealth) work. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making; BMJ Health & Care Informatics; Computers in Biology and Medicine; Health Informatics Journal; International Journal of Medical Informatics
The health informatics community is still growing, it is by no means a mature profession, but work in the UK by the voluntary registration body, the UK Council of Health Informatics Professions has suggested eight key constituencies within the domain–information management, knowledge management, portfolio/program/project management, ICT ...
This article presents some history of use of geographic information and geographic information systems in public health application areas, provides some examples showing the utilization of GIS techniques in solving specific public health problems, and finally addresses several potential issues arising from increased use of these GIS techniques ...
Health information management's standards history is dated back to the introduction of the American Health Information Management Association, founded in 1928 "when the American College of Surgeons established the Association of Record Librarians of North America (ARLNA) to 'elevate the standards of clinical records in hospitals and other medical institutions.'" [3]
Medical informatics, nursing informatics, public health informatics, pharmacy informatics, and translational bioinformatics are subdisciplines that inform health informatics from different disciplinary perspectives. [9] The processes and people of concern or study are the main variables.
Public Health Reports is a peer-reviewed public health journal established in 1878 and published by SAGE Publishing for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and the United States Public Health Service. [1] The title and publication frequency of the journal has varied over the years, but it is currently published bimonthly. [2]