Data, Staff, and Money: Leadership Reflections on the Future of Public Health Informatics

Conclusions: Local health department leadership desires to have timely or even real-time data. Local health departments have a great potential to benefit from informatics, particularly electronic health records in advancing their administrative practices and service delivery, but financial and human capital represents the largest barrier. Interoperability of public health systems is highly desirable but hardly achievable in the presence of such barriers.
Source: Journal of Public Health Management and Practice - Category: Health Management Tags: Research Articles Source Type: research