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Meaningful use fully supports public health surveillance and reporting.
True
False
Define: Systematic application of information and computer science and technology to public health practice, research and learning.
Geographic Information Systems
Public Health Informatics
Healthmap
Public Health Surveillance
Ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data essential to planning, implementation and evaluation of public health practice is defined as.
Geographic Information Systems
Meaningful Use
Public Health Informatics
Public Health Surveillance
Case surveillance systems have been the focus of most public health surveillance.
True
False
Sydromic surveillance systems cannot be used to track longitudinal data and monitor disease trends.
True
False
Which statement is true.
Public Health Information Network is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Initiative.
Although, PHIN and NHIN are similar, only one require standards and policies for secure transmission of healthcare data.
Establishing messaging and vocabulary standards is not a key focus/strategy for PHIN.
PHIN stands for Prevention and Public Health Fund
Epidemiologists often characterize data by place, time and person.
True
False
The Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) estimates that despite the importance of public health informatics, the field will not necessarily require more workers.
True
False
A public health professional who works in practice, research, or academia and whose primary work function is to use informatics to improve population health is defined as:
Population Health Informatician
Public Health Data Analyst
Public Health Professor
Public Health Informatician
The _______________________ represents world public health with goals of fostering health security, promoting health development and strengthening health systems.
CDC
World Health Organization
PHIN
NHIN
Geographical Information Systems can provide maps with important health data overlays.
True
False
Asthmapolis is defined as:
a GPS-enabled inhaler that tracks compliance or rescue inhalers and syncs information wirelessly to users smartphone via Bluetooth.
Global project to integrate infectious disease news and visualization using an Internet geographic map.
A smartphone app that details infectious disease outbreaks.
National data standards surrounding Asthma
Define ResearchMatch:
Email alerts relating to clinical trials
A commercial venture which allows volunteers to search clinical trials from ClinicalTracks.gov
Data standards relating to public health research
A way to connect patients seeking clinical trials and researchers seeking volunteers.
E-Research will enable researchers to reduce the time from "the creation and validations of new biomedical knowledge and translation of that knowledge into practice."
True
False
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