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AHL 827 - Public Health IT


.6 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable the student to learn aft fM!FYiew of the specialized public health applications and how to adopt the use of population health functions for electronic health records (EHRs) and consumer functions for personal health records. Topics to be covered include registries, epidemiological databases, bio-surveillance, public health reporting alerts, quality reporting, health promotion, and disease prevention.

 

Course Objectives:

1. define the strategies, features, and systems needed for public health agencies to implement the necessary connections to EHRs as identified by meaningful use legislation;
2. describe the roles and function of existing public health data and health databases and networks;
3. apply health data definitions and standards, as well as privacy and confidentiality issues, in typical public health scenarios; and
4. identify the role, functions and applications of public health information technology (IT) for health promotion and chronic disease prevention.



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