Foundations
This is the application of information science and technology to public health practice.
What is Public Health Informatics?
These systems collect, store, manage, and transmit public health data.
What are health information systems?
The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data
What is public health surveillance?
These standards help ensure that health data is structured consistently across systems.
What are data standards?
This federal law protects patient health information.
What is HIPAA?
The three core functions of public health.
What are assessment, policy development, and assurance?
This type of system is used by clinicians to document patient care.
What is an Electronic Health Record (EHR)?
This CDC system monitors infectious diseases in the U.S.
What is the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS)?
This standard is widely used for electronic exchange of clinical documents.
What is HL7 (Health Level 7)?
Public health surveillance must balance public benefit and this.
What is individual privacy?
This field differs from clinical informatics by focusing on populations, not individuals.
What is public health informatics?
Public health departments often use this type of system to manage reportable disease cases.|
What is a Case Management System?
This type of surveillance collects data before diagnosis.
What is syndromic surveillance?
A standard for coding diseases and health conditions.
What is ICD (International Classification of Diseases)?
This type of security ensures that only authorized users can access data
What is access control?
This major 2009 act promoted adoption of health IT.
What is the HITECH Act?
This system links vital records like birth and death certificates.
What is the Vital Records System?
Local and state health departments submit weekly data to this national influenza system.
What is ILINet (Influenza-Like Illness Network)?
This ensures systems can exchange and use data effectively.
What is interoperability?
This process removes personal identifiers from health data.
What is de-identification?
This CDC office leads PH informatics initiatives.
What is the Office of Public Health Scientific Services (OPHSS)?
These are systems that facilitate lab result data exchange for surveillance.
What are Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)?
These 3 key elements define a public health surveillance system.
What are data collection, data analysis, and data dissemination?
SNOMED-CT is an example of this type of medical terminology.
What is a controlled vocabulary?
These three principles guide information system security: CIA.
What are confidentiality, integrity, and availability?