Public Health Foundations & Epidemiology
A disease consistently present in a population or region, monitored using informatics tools.
The number of new cases of a disease in a specific population during a defined time period.
What is Incidence
Digital tools that allow individuals to track and manage their health data independently.
Personal Health Application
Relating to genes and their functions; used in public health to understand disease risks and inform personalized prevention strategies.
What is Genomic
Official recognition that a public health organization or program meets certain standards of quality and performance.
What is Accreditation
The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in populations, often supported by informatics tools.
What is Epidemiology
Differences in health outcomes and access to care across different population groups, analyzed using informatics data.
What are Health Disparities
A secure, decentralized digital ledger that can be used in public health for managing health records and ensuring data integrity.
What is Blockchain
The ability of different health information systems and software to communicate and exchange data effectively.
What is Interoperability
The acceptance and integration of new health technologies, systems, or practices by public health entities.
What is Adoption
The condition of being diseased or the incidence of illness in a population.
What is Morbidity
Coordinated care strategies supported by informatics to improve health outcomes for patients with chronic conditions.
What is Disease Management
The electronic movement of health-related information among organizations to improve healthcare delivery and public health outcomes.
What is Health Information Exchange (HIE)
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
The separation of infected individuals to prevent the spread of disease, tracked and supported by health information systems.
What is Isolation
The total number of cases of a disease in a population at a given time.
What is Prevalence
Ongoing collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data essential for planning and evaluating public health practices.
What is surveillance
A type of personal health record where the individual controls access to their health information.
What is Personally-Controlled Health Record (PCHR)
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
Information that has been interpreted and applied to improve public health practice and policy.
What is Knowledge
An attribute or exposure that increases the likelihood of developing a disease or injury.
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
The practice of acquiring, analyzing, and protecting digital and traditional medical information vital to quality patient care.
What is Health Information Management
A set of international standards for transferring clinical and administrative data between healthcare applications.
What is Health Level 7 (HL7)
A specialist in vector-borne disease tracking and surveillance systems.
Who is an Entomologist