Name
Abstract | ||
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Current electronic health record systems are primarily clinical in focus, designed to provide patient-level data and provider-level decision support. Adapting EHR systems to serve public health needs provides the possibility of enormous advances for public health practice and policy. In this review, we evaluate EHR functionality and map it to the three core functions of public health: assessment, policy development, and assurance. In doing so, we identify and discuss important design, implementation, and methodological issues with current systems. For example, in order to support public health's traditional focus on preventive health and socio-behavioral factors, EHR data models would need to be expanded to incorporate environmental, psychosocial, and other non-medical data elements, and workflow would have to be examined to determine the optimal way of collecting these data. We also argue that redesigning EHR systems to support public health offers benefits not only to the public health system but also to consumers, health-care institutions, and individual providers. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.1016/j.jbi.2007.07.001 | Journal of Biomedical Informatics |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
adapting ehr system,decision support,ehr data model,patient-centered health records,public health,public health need,public health system,surveillance,policy development,assurance,public health practice,current electronic health record,ehr functionality,assessment,electronic health record system,preventive health,non-medical data element,data model,health care | Public health,HRHIS,Health law,Information retrieval,Computer science,Knowledge management,Public health informatics,Environmental health,Clinical decision support system,International health,Health informatics,Health policy | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
40 | 4 | 1532-0480 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
25 | 1.81 | 5 |
Authors | ||
9 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rita Kukafka | 1 | 141 | 42.13 |
| Jessica S. Ancker | 2 | 118 | 21.14 |
| Connie Chan | 3 | 86 | 5.15 |
| John Chelico | 4 | 25 | 1.81 |
| Sharib A. Khan | 5 | 49 | 8.34 |
| Selasie Mortoti | 6 | 25 | 1.81 |
| Karthik Natarajan | 7 | 407 | 31.52 |
| Kempton Presley | 8 | 25 | 1.81 |
| Kayann Stephens | 9 | 25 | 1.81 |