Assignment Instructions:
You have been hired as a healthcare informatics specialist at a state health department that focuses on four public healthcare goals – public health surveillance, immunization information collection, public health reporting, and public health education.
Write a Briefing Report that addresses the following aspects:
- Discuss four health informatics tools (Electronic Health Record -EHR, Health Information Exchange – HIE, Web portals, eHealth, electronic media, mass media, social media, communication technology, disease/immunization registries) used to accomplish these goals. Select one tool for each goal and explain why you selected this tool for this goal.
- What challenges do you face in using the selected tools in accomplishing these public health informatics goals and what state-level policies would you frame to overcome them?
- Propose a research initiative for organizational effectiveness demonstrating application of one of the discussed tools.
APA Requirements: Formatted in APA 7th Edition. Provide credible evidence, through the use of in-text citations from your references, to support your conclusions/information.
