Public Health Informatics Paper
Technology has advanced the field of Public Health Informatics PHI, over the past twenty years. Practitioners can now retrieve, analyze, share, and distribute information to other users, such as health organizations, non-profits, and CBOs (Community Based Organizations) (Narain & Ofrin, 2012). For example, early warning systems regarding diseases and natural disasters speed up the time for first responders thus decreasing the chance of disease by moving people away from ground zero to shelters. The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently tracking bed nets and quantities distributed to India. PDAs (Palmtop computers) are often mailed out to survey respondents who can enter information regarding their blood pressure or how many times they
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Health files, unlike what happened with Hurricane Katrina, can be transferred to other agencies for diagnoses and pharmacy records (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2015). Technology, in the form of social media, has made it easier to educate the public on important health issues. Often these are grassroots organizations that take advantage of online sites that help raise money for further research and awareness efforts. Phones, and computers, including tablets can be used for scheduling appointments, setting up text reminders from practitioners’ offices, making use of apps for specialized diets, and entering blood glucose levels showing trends and patterns in one’s Diabetic status. Lastly, technology, as in our case at Capella, provides interactive learning, not only from a structured class but from peers that live globally, giving us access to other issues from around the world (Lobb & McDonnell, …show more content…
Ensure that the homeless population have smart phones, issued for free, that allow them to download apps from the Red Cross and FEMA, so that they get real-time news regarding disasters, updates, and where local shelters are.
2. Home security systems to text parents, when a regular afternoon entry is not documented, thus alerting parents that their kid(s) have not yet arrived home.
3. Having a universal pharmacy database or connecting systems, that would’ve allowed Hurricane Katrina victims to get their medications when they were transported to
Health files, unlike what happened with Hurricane Katrina, can be transferred to other agencies for diagnoses and pharmacy records (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2015). Technology, in the form of social media, has made it easier to educate the public on important health issues. Often these are grassroots organizations that take advantage of online sites that help raise money for further research and awareness efforts. Phones, and computers, including tablets can be used for scheduling appointments, setting up text reminders from practitioners’ offices, making use of apps for specialized diets, and entering blood glucose levels showing trends and patterns in one’s Diabetic status. Lastly, technology, as in our case at Capella, provides interactive learning, not only from a structured class but from peers that live globally, giving us access to other issues from around the world (Lobb & McDonnell, …show more content…
Ensure that the homeless population have smart phones, issued for free, that allow them to download apps from the Red Cross and FEMA, so that they get real-time news regarding disasters, updates, and where local shelters are.
2. Home security systems to text parents, when a regular afternoon entry is not documented, thus alerting parents that their kid(s) have not yet arrived home.
3. Having a universal pharmacy database or connecting systems, that would’ve allowed Hurricane Katrina victims to get their medications when they were transported to