You have been hired as the director of public health informatics for the Centervale County Department of Public Health because you have valuable knowledge about functionality and functioning of RHIOs. This is what you have learned about Centervales plans,
- The Centervale County department of public health plans to deploy a murky-wide RHIO.
- The department requires healthcare establishments and practitioners in the county. migrate from a paper-based health reoords system to an electronic medical records (EMR) system within the next five years.
Information Exchange set up by the RHIO with the next years.
Directions:
Your primary responsibility is to propose policies and mandates that ensure maintenance of confidentiality and privacy of protected heath information. Keeping that in mind, prepare a 10-12-slide PowerPoint presentaron for the Centervale County Department of Public Health officials that includes the following:
1. Discuss the challenges of privacy and confidentiality within the history and evolution of public health informatics.
a. What opportunities will the migration to an EHR and the implementation of a RHIO provide to address these challenges?
2. Address the following issues with establishing a county-wide RHIO:
a. Identify and discuss the privacy concerns about the collection and distribution of heath information across the RHIO.
b. Describe the access rights of individuals and any groups to the data collected and stored by the RHIO.
c. Identify and explain interoperability standards deployed by the RHIO.
3. Propose a list of policies and mandates that would ensure maintenance of confidentiality and privacy of protected healt information as mentioned in the above issues.
4. Evaluate and identify the best tools or system of public health informatics to manage the county's public health information and explain how that tool or system will uphold privacy.
a. Give examples of how key public health information systems in the United States use these policies and mandates to guarantee security, confidentiality, and accesibility of the data they contain.
b. Describe some of the search tools available to locate and analyze public health data.
5. Examine how the policies, mandates, tools, and standards that have evolved in the development of RHIOs might contribute to a global strategy use of information technology (IT) in healthcare to reduce health inequity.