Public Health Foundations & Epidemiology
Public Health Practice & Prevention
Health Information Technology (HIT) Systems
Data Standards & Interoperability
Governance, Ethics & Information Management
100

A disease consistently present in a population or region, monitored using informatics tools.

What is Endemic
100

The number of new cases of a disease in a specific population during a defined time period.

What is Incidence

100

Digital tools that allow individuals to track and manage their health data independently.

Personal Health Application

100

Relating to genes and their functions; used in public health to understand disease risks and inform personalized prevention strategies.

What is Genomic

100

Official recognition that a public health organization or program meets certain standards of quality and performance.

What is Accreditation

200

The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in populations, often supported by informatics tools.

What is Epidemiology

200

Differences in health outcomes and access to care across different population groups, analyzed using informatics data.

What are Health Disparities

200

A secure, decentralized digital ledger that can be used in public health for managing health records and ensuring data integrity.

What is Blockchain

200

The ability of different health information systems and software to communicate and exchange data effectively.

What is Interoperability

200

The acceptance and integration of new health technologies, systems, or practices by public health entities.

What is Adoption

300

The condition of being diseased or the incidence of illness in a population.

What is Morbidity

300

Coordinated care strategies supported by informatics to improve health outcomes for patients with chronic conditions.

What is Disease Management

300

The electronic movement of health-related information among organizations to improve healthcare delivery and public health outcomes.

What is Health Information Exchange (HIE)

300

A type of AI where systems learn from data to make predictions or decisions, increasingly used in disease surveillance and public health analysis.

Machine Learning

300

The separation of infected individuals to prevent the spread of disease, tracked and supported by health information systems.

What is Isolation

400

The total number of cases of a disease in a population at a given time.

What is Prevalence

400

Ongoing collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data essential for planning and evaluating public health practices.

What is surveillance

400

A type of personal health record where the individual controls access to their health information.

What is Personally-Controlled Health Record (PCHR)

400

Legislation aimed at promoting the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology.

What is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act

400

Information that has been interpreted and applied to improve public health practice and policy.

What is Knowledge

500

An attribute or exposure that increases the likelihood of developing a disease or injury.

What is Risk Factor
500

A measure of premature mortality that estimates the number of years a person would have lived if they had not died prematurely.

What is Years of Potential Life Lost

500

The practice of acquiring, analyzing, and protecting digital and traditional medical information vital to quality patient care.

What is Health Information Management

500

A set of international standards for transferring clinical and administrative data between healthcare applications.

What is Health Level 7 (HL7)

500

A specialist in vector-borne disease tracking and surveillance systems.

Who is an Entomologist